"-verse" meaning in English

See -verse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /vəːs/ [UK], /vɚs/ [US]
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  1. Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. Tags: morpheme
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  2. Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--verse-en-suffix-FJpK21dj Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages using catfix, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of English back-formations: 30 36 34 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 24 34 42 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 28 41 31 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 36 39 Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 26 44 30 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 26 44 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 39 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 45 29 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 20 45 35 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 22 51 26
  3. (fandom slang) Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe. Tags: morpheme, slang
    Sense id: en--verse-en-suffix-I8bsoJ2n Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Worldbuilding Disambiguation of English back-formations: 30 36 34 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 24 34 42 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 36 39 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 39 32 Disambiguation of Worldbuilding: 14 28 58 Topics: lifestyle
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              87,
              92
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element."
      ],
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        [
          "range",
          "range"
        ],
        [
          "totality",
          "totality"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
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      "attestations": [
        {
          "date": "from 20th c.",
          "references": []
        }
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              22,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:",
          "text": "Women's lib in the BSGverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              119,
              124
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:",
          "text": "This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fictional",
          "fictional"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "television series",
          "television series"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English fandom slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "alternative universe",
          "alternative universe"
        ]
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        "(fandom slang) Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vəːs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vɚs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)s"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-verse"
}

Download raw JSONL data for -verse meaning in English (7.7kB)

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: proper noun-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-verse"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-verse",
  "trace": ""
}

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