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metaverses

metaverses is the plural of metaverse.

Meaning of metaverse

Noun

metaverse (plural metaverses)

  1. (Internet) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.
    • Hiro walks straight through the display, and it vanishes. Amusement park in the Metaverse can be fantastic, offering a wide selection of interactive three-dimensional movies.2011 [1992], Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 36
  2. (archaic) A set or the composite of all universes.
    • A single-cycle universe comes to eternal rest. But further instabilities in the virtual energy domain may occur, and some of these may be potent enough to create new universes. The thesis of a metaverse giving rise to local universes is cogent, […]2003, Ervin Laszlo, The Connectivity Hypothesis, page 108

Questions about metaverses

What is metaverses the plural of?
Metaverses is the plural of metaverse.

Words near metaverses in the dictionary

  1. metaventrites
  2. metaversal
  3. metaversality
  4. metaversally
  5. metaverse
  6. metaverses
  7. metavinculin
  8. metaviriome
  9. metaviriomes
  10. metaviriomic
  11. metavirome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metaverses (page history and authors); metaverse (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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