multiversity
Americannoun
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multiversities
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of multiversity
First recorded in 1960–65; multi- + (uni)versity
Example Sentences
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The Amber world is a multiversity of infinite possibility, where individual shadow worlds contain everything from unicorns to Sherman tanks.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2016
At many of these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity.
From Time Magazine Archive
It became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
Academic life is controlled in ways that an American at even the most impersonal multiversity would neither appreciate nor understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many educators regarded U.C. as the world's best public multiversity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even established public multiversities are building in frantic fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis."
From Time Magazine Archive
While collegians march against monogamy or multiversities, their once sedate mothers are mounting the barricades to battle school bussing or stop encroaching highway bulldozers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some educators are worried about the growth of the public multiversities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Experience has shown that consortiums need not create vast impersonal multiversities; even in the closest alliances, colleges can and do preserve their individuality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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