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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A plural of ephemeron.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fever which lasts but a day or a very short period.
  2. n. [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, the typical genus of May-flies or day-flies of the family Ephemeridæ, having three long caudal filaments. E. vulgata is a common European species; E. (Leptophlebia) cupida is one of the commonest in the northeastern United States. See cut under day-fly.
  3. n. A May-fly, day-fly, or shad-fly; an ephemerid. See Ephemeridæ and May-fly.
  4. n. Anything very short-lived.
  5. n. Plural of ephemeron.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of ephemeron.
  2. n. transitory things
  3. n. publications that are designed to be short-lived

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something transitory; lasting a day

Examples

  • “Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer.”

    THE HUMAN DRIFT

  • “Specialty dealers David Margolis and Jean Moss from Santa Fe, NM, specialists in ephemera, photography, and fine books; and, Terry Belanger, 2005 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Rare Book School, University of Virginia.”

    Archive 2008-01-01

  • “Talk about ephemera from the past … a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag:”

    2008 February : Scrubbles.net

  • “So, any ephemera from the creation of that story about cranky old Hagar comprise the literary world's version of splinters from the cross.”

    52 entries from July 2006

  • “The site is described as a comprehensive collection of newpaper articles, cemetery ledgers, photos, personal correspondence, obituaries and other ephemera from the Woodgate/White Lake area.”

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Woodgate Digitization Project

  • “The Woodgate Digitization Project is, as the site states, a "comprehensive collection of newpaper articles, cemetery ledgers, photos, personal correspondence, obituaries and other ephemera from the Woodgate/White Lake area.”

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Mid-York Digitization Projects

  • “The Disney Paper Resource center features descriptions and thumbnails of amazing vintage paper Disney ephemera from the 50s onward.”

    Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives

  • “The ephemera is another of this order, which rises from the lakes in such quantities in some countries, that the rustics have carried cart-loads of them to manure their corn lands; the larva swims in the water: in its fly-state the pleasures of life are of short duration, as its marriage, production of its progeny, and funeral, are often celebrated in one day.”

    Note IV

  • “The $79.99 tabards (chainmail not included) are on pre-order now for a first quarter 2010 release, so while you won’t have the item on the holiday morning, just knowing this piece of ephemera is on the way should have the giddy with glee. via Sideshow Collectibles”

    28 Days of Geek Giving: Wearable World of Warcraft Tabards | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News

  • “It’s been a while since I’ve shared some weird ephemera from the past.”

    2010 February : Scrubbles.net

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  • reesetee In book/print collecting, items designed to be useful or important for only a short time. Examples: pamphlets, notices, broadsides. Feb 20, 2007

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