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Meaning of -verse | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B1
vəːs

Definitions

  1. Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
  2. Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
  3. Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe.

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“Women's lib in the BSGverse.”
“This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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