buffyverse

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Meaning · English

The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Register: slang

Where it’s used: Used American English

Examples

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “buffyverse” mean?

The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Is “buffyverse” formal or informal?

buffyverse is generally slang.