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Definition of Ephemera
1. Noun. Something transitory; lasting a day.
Definition of Ephemera
1. n. A fever of one day's continuance only.
Definition of Ephemera
1. Noun. (plural of ephemeron) ¹
2. Noun. transitory things ¹
3. Noun. publications that are designed to be short-lived ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ephemera
1. something of very short life or duration [n -ERAS or -ERAE]
Medical Definition of Ephemera
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemera
Literary usage of Ephemera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The study of medicine by John Mason Good (1825)
"The ephemera rarely exceeds a duration of twenty- The term four hours.
Some practitioners, however, have called ^u^uA by this name a fever that has extended ..."
2. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"Common ephemera— ephemera, communis. solar microscope, we project the transparent
body of an ephemera upon a huge screen, one is astonished at the ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE ephemera; AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE LETTER TO MADAME BRILLON OF PASSY, WRITTEN
IN 1778 You may remember, my dear friend, that when we lately spent that ..."
4. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera,
whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera,
whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within ..."
6. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"The ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life1 You may remember, my dear friend, that
when we lately spent that happy day in the delightful garden and sweet ..."
7. The Oxford Book of American Essays by Brander Matthews (1914)
"We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera,
whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within ..."
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