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
One target is today's "multiversity," with its fragmented specialists, the antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years ago, well-organized campus rebels cleverly exploited broadly held malaise over the coldness of the "multiversity" to bring the school "to a grinding halt," as Savio put it.
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The multiversity proved all but unmanageable, though for years Kerr succeeded in mediating the divergent demands of students, faculty and California's conservative Regents.
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The atmosphere was an odd mixture of multiversity class room and political convention.
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While collegians march against monogamy or multiversities, their once sedate mothers are mounting the barricades to battle school bussing or stop encroaching highway bulldozers.
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Some educators are worried about the growth of the public multiversities.
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Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis."
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Even established public multiversities are building in frantic fashion.
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There was a flourishing journalistic "underground" and an archipelago of multiversities that bristled with post-modern architecture.
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