underverse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌndə(ɹ)vɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology 1

under- +‎ verse

Noun

underverse (plural underverses)

1. (obsolete) The following or second verse.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     Perigot maketh all hys song in prayse of his love, to whom Willy answereth every underverse.

Etymology 2

under- +‎ -verse

Noun

underverse (plural underverses)

1. (science fiction) An alternate universe located in some sense underneath the real one.
   • 2014, Eric Thompson, The Slave, The Sword and the Stars, page 237:

     With this insight they are able to understand this universe and the underverse. In the underverse, space and time are different due to the change in mass due to the feild generated to protect from the foreign opposite universe.

See also

• subspace

Anagrams

• underserve, undeserver, unreserved, unreversed