multiverse

noun

mul·​ti·​verse ˈməl-tē-ˌvərs How to pronounce multiverse (audio)
cosmology
: a theoretical reality that includes a possibly infinite number of parallel universes

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By this point in the Tom Holland era, the idea of the multiverse had been introduced and popularized — hell, the Spider-Man franchise already centered it in Into the Spider-Verse three years prior. Darren Franich, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025 To date, Brody has made almost 60 movies playing a multiverse of characters, from punk rocker to ventriloquist to bull fighter to Roman general; he’s played Arthur Miller, Houdini, and a wonderfully whimsical Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025 Carol Freeman gets a Benjamin Sisko-like gig as rift overseer, and a show that targets the multiverse rather than a single universe could be a new frontier for the franchise. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024 And at the end of season 2, when the Watcher takes Peggy to look out at the multiverse, it's taken the form of the tree of stories that Loki sits in the middle of at the end of Loki season 2. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for multiverse 

Word History

Etymology

multi- + -verse (in universe)

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of multiverse was in 1963

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“Multiverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiverse. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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