英和和英

名詞

'verse (複数形 'verses)

1. (fandom slang) The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set.
   • 2006 August 22, “Life in the 'verse AFTER the BDM”, in alt.tv.firefly, Usenet‎^[1]:

     How has the landscape of the 'verse changed? Was there a toppling of the Alliance government?

   • 2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly‎^[2], page 51:

     In the dystopian Firefly ‘verse, the government itself is “antisocial.”

   • 2007, Corey Bridges, The Virtual ‘Verse, in Jane Espenson (editor), Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe,

     Happily, it's a fun ‘verse for a journey. It's no accident that Joss Whedon built Firefly with the elements of a great MMOG.

   • 2008, K. Dale Koontz, Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon‎^[3], page 160:

     In the Firefly/Serenity ‘verse (as in ours), unstable teenage girls are not supposed to be able to kill three men with three shots.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /vəːs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /vɚs/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)s

接尾辞

-verse

1. Forming compound nouns denoting the whole range or totality of what is indicated by the first element. [from 20th c.]
   • 2006, Matthew MacDonald, Creating Web Sites: the Missing Manual:

     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.

   • 2010, Yahya Kamalipour, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age:

     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.

2. Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc. [from 20th c.]
   • 2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery & Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, p. 150:

     Women's lib in the BSGverse.

   • 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:

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

派生語

アナグラム

• reves, serve, sever, veers