metaverse.

1. A persistent virtual environment connecting multiple digital spaces in which people can interact.

2. A hypothetical totality combining all universes, whether they coexist or occur successively.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• enter a metaverse
• a shared metaverse
• metaverse platforms

On the page

The museum reopened inside a metaverse linking several independently built worlds.

Her avatar retained its possessions when she moved between regions of the metaverse.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi literary / speculative. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Singular metaverse; plural metaverses. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Direct dictionary extraction: computing persistent virtual environment enabling interoperation of multiple virtual realities; also an individual environment in aggregate. Cosmology sense hypothetical combination of all coexisting or sequential universes. Individual usefulness checked for a distinct speculative-writing function. Original definitions and examples; hypothetical theories and fictional applications are not presented as established findings. No inherent mood or intensity is assigned. Writing functions: interconnected virtual social settings, distinguishing digital and cosmological realms.