EPHEMERA (ephemerae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ephemerae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemera mean? 

• EPHEMERA (noun)
  The noun EPHEMERA has 1 sense:

1. something transitory; lasting a day

  Familiarity information: EPHEMERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPHEMERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something transitory; lasting a day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("ephemera" is a kind of...):

time (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities))

Derivation:

ephemeral (lasting a very short time)

 Context examples 

And you're responsible for it, what of your man, who is always the erected, the vitalized inorganic, the latest of the ephemera, the creature of temperature strutting his little space on the thermometer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, what do you, the latest of the ephemera, want with fame?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh, yes, 'Man, the latest of the ephemera.'

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had made love the strongest thing in him, increased its power a myriad per cent with her gift of imagination, and sent him forth into the ephemera to thrill and melt and mate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)