-verse
/vɚs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.18 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ttós Proto-Italic *worssosder. Latin vorsus Latin versus Latin ūniversusder. Old French universbor. Middle English universe English universebf. English -verse Extracted from universe.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vɚs/
- British English: /vəːs/