Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fever which lasts but a day or a very short period.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, the typical genus of May-flies or day-flies of the family Ephemeridæ, having three long caudal filaments.
- noun A May-fly, day-fly, or shad-fly; an ephemerid. See
Ephemeridæ and May-fly. - noun Anything very short-lived.
- noun Plural of
ephemeron .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under
Ephemeral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
ephemeron . - noun
transitory things - noun
publications that aredesigned to be short-lived
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something transitory; lasting a day
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reesetee commented on the word ephemera
In book/print collecting, items designed to be useful or important for only a short time. Examples: pamphlets, notices, broadsides.
February 20, 2007