Xenaverse

English

Etymology

From Xena +‎ -verse.

Proper noun

the Xenaverse

1. (fandom slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Xena: Warrior Princess series.
   • 1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 88:

     Guess things are different in the Xenaverse. Maybe Ares and the other gods don't like competition?

   • 2005, "Doris", quoted in Sue Austin, Women's Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-hatred, Love and Agency, page 22:

     The show is an amazing foray into women's expressions of rage — there's a lot of other women in the Xenaverse with a penchant for feats of arms […]

   • 2013 September 9, Jennifer Sky, “My Life as a Warrior Princess”, in The New York Times:

     Gender was not relevant in the Xenaverse. There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xenaverse.
2. (fandom slang) The fandom of Xena: Warrior Princess.
   • 2002, Jo Marriott, Carly Bramwell, “Maid Marion, Meet Xena”, in Nikki Stafford, editor, How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans, page 72:

     Many wonderful people and events have come into our lives from being part of the Xenaverse.

   • 2003, Sara Gwellian-Jones, “Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess”, in Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn, editors, The Audience Studies Reader, page 188:

     The task of mapping the online Xenaverse is, of course, an impossible one. The Xenaverse is too expansive, too unstructured, too fluid and fast moving to be charted; […]

   • 2005, Anik LaChev, "Fan Fiction: A Genre And Its (Final?) Frontiers", Spectator, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2005, page 91:

     For instance, when I lived in Italy a couple of years ago, I stumbled across the Italian Xenaverse.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xenaverse.

See also

• Hercverse