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[edit]Extracted fromuniverse.
Pronunciation
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[edit]-verse
- Forming compound nouns denoting the wholerangeortotalityof what is indicated by the first element.[from 20th c.]
- 2006,Matthew MacDonald,Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:
- Quite simply, a feed reader lets you stay up to date with all your friends in the blogiverse,without forcing you to surf back to every blog 94 times a day to check if anything's new.
- 2010,Yahya Kamalipour,Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:
- The “Twitterverse”was alive with eyewitness accounts, but CNN was silent about the disputed election and those coming out to support the Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.
- Forming compounds nouns denoting thefictionalworld of a givencharacter,television seriesetc.[from 20th c.]
- 2008,Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson,Finding Battlestar Galactica,page150:
- Women's lib in theBSGverse.
- 2009,David Greven,Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek,page216:
- This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.