See 'verse on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "universe"
},
"expansion": "Aphetic form of universe",
"name": "aphetic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Aphetic form of universe.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "'verses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "'verse (plural 'verses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "73 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "79 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 26",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fiction",
"orig": "en:Fiction",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Fictional universes",
"orig": "en:Fictional universes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
35
]
],
"ref": "2006 August 22, “Life in the 'verse AFTER the BDM”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):",
"text": "How has the landscape of the 'verse changed? Was there a toppling of the Alliance government?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
31
]
],
"ref": "2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, page 51:",
"text": "In the dystopian Firefly ‘verse, the government itself is “antisocial.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
26
]
],
"ref": "2007, Corey Bridges, “The Virtual ‘Verse”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe:",
"text": "Happily, it's a fun ‘verse for a journey. It's no accident that Joss Whedon built Firefly with the elements of a great MMOG.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
24,
30
]
],
"ref": "2008, K. Dale Koontz, Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon, page 160:",
"text": "In the Firefly/Serenity ‘verse (as in ours), unstable teenage girls are not supposed to be able to kill three men with three shots.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set."
],
"id": "en-'verse-en-noun-eB6gRV-9",
"links": [
[
"fandom",
"fandom"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"fictional",
"fictional"
],
[
"TV series",
"TV series"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fandom slang) The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "universe"
}
],
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Clipping of universe."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "43 57",
"word": "Whedonverse"
}
],
"id": "en-'verse-en-noun-7PV~AgDy",
"links": [
[
"universe",
"universe#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping"
]
}
],
"word": "'verse"
}
{
"categories": [
"English aphetic forms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Fiction",
"en:Fictional universes"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "universe"
},
"expansion": "Aphetic form of universe",
"name": "aphetic form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Aphetic form of universe.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "'verses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "'verse (plural 'verses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"word": "Whedonverse"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English fandom slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
35
]
],
"ref": "2006 August 22, “Life in the 'verse AFTER the BDM”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):",
"text": "How has the landscape of the 'verse changed? Was there a toppling of the Alliance government?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
31
]
],
"ref": "2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, page 51:",
"text": "In the dystopian Firefly ‘verse, the government itself is “antisocial.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
26
]
],
"ref": "2007, Corey Bridges, “The Virtual ‘Verse”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe:",
"text": "Happily, it's a fun ‘verse for a journey. It's no accident that Joss Whedon built Firefly with the elements of a great MMOG.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
24,
30
]
],
"ref": "2008, K. Dale Koontz, Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon, page 160:",
"text": "In the Firefly/Serenity ‘verse (as in ours), unstable teenage girls are not supposed to be able to kill three men with three shots.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set."
],
"links": [
[
"fandom",
"fandom"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"fictional",
"fictional"
],
[
"TV series",
"TV series"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fandom slang) The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "universe"
}
],
"categories": [
"English clippings"
],
"glosses": [
"Clipping of universe."
],
"links": [
[
"universe",
"universe#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping"
]
}
],
"word": "'verse"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 'verse meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.