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Definition of "ephemera" []

  • A plural of ephemeron. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ephemera" in a sentence
  • "Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer."
  • "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."
  • "Talk about ephemera from the past … a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag:"