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-verse

UK/vəːs/US/vɚs/

-verse suffix: forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.

Suffix

-verse (proper noun-forming suffix)

  1. Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
    • 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.2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual
    • 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.2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
  2. Forming compound nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.
    • Women's lib in the BSGverse.2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150
    • This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216
  3. (slang) Forming compound nouns denoting an alternative universe.

Origin of -verse

Extracted from universe.

Words that rhyme with -verse

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Questions about -verse

What does -verse mean?
-verse means forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
What part of speech is -verse?
-verse is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -verse?
-verse is pronounced /vəːs/ (UK).

Words near -verse in the dictionary

  1. -vaptan
  2. -varin
  3. -vastatin
  4. -ve
  5. -verine
  6. -verse
  7. -version
  8. -vert
  9. -vi-
  10. -ville
  11. -vir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -verse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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