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Definition: Ephemera |
EphemeraNoun1. Something transitory; lasting a day. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ephemera" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1778. (references) |
Synonym: EphemeraSynonym: Printed ephemera. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ephemera |
| English words defined with "ephemera": Ephemeral fly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ephemera": Ephemeron. (references) |
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Periodicals |
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Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Trinity College. Ephemera display for Trinity College.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Ephemera" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "Ephemera" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.56% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ephemera": Ephemera [Publication Type]. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ephemera | 90 |
paper ephemera | 3 |
ephemera inc | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ephemera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | diçka jetëshkurtër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذبابة مايو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нещо съвсем краткотрайно, ефенерида, еднодневка (day fly, mayfly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蝣 (Ephemera strigata). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éphémère (ephemeral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszavirág életûek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | effimera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ephemeraay epentético. (various references) что-л. мимолетное. (various references) prolazna pojava. (various references) efímera (mayfly). (various references) สิ่งที่มีอายุสั้นและไม่ค่อยมีความสำคัญมาก, ของสะสมจากสิ่งที่ในตอนแรกผลิตมาเพื่อการใช้งานระยะสั้นๆ เช่น ตั๋วรถโ"ยสารประจำทาง. (various references) efemerid (ephemeron), kısa ömürlü şey (ephemeron), bir günlük ömrü olan böcek. (various references) щось ефемерне, одноденка. (various references) số nhiều của $ephemeron (ephemerae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ephemera": ephemerae, ephemeral, ephemeralities, ephemerality, ephemerally, ephemerals, ephemeras. (additional references) | |
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"Ephemera" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apenera, efemera, ephebe, ephemere, ephemery, ephemira, ephemra, ephimera, ephmera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-m-p-r" | |
-2 letters: ampere, hamper, hareem, hermae. | |
-3 letters: ameer, emeer, harem, herma, perea, ramee, raphe, rehem, remap. | |
-4 letters: ahem, aper, epee, epha, haem, hame, hare, harm, harp, heap, hear, heme, hemp, here, herm, mare, mere, pare, pear, peer, perm, pram, pree, ramp, rape, ream, reap, rhea. | |
-5 letters: amp, ape, are, arm, ear, eme, era, ere, hae, ham. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-m-p-r" | |
+1 letter: ephemerae, ephemeral, ephemeras. | |
+2 letters: ephemerals, heptameter, reemphases. | |
+3 letters: ephemerally, heptameters, pamphleteer, reemphasize. | |
+4 letters: ephemerality, overemphases, pamphleteers, reemphasized, reemphasizes, spermathecae. | |
+5 letters: magnetosphere, overemphasize, pamphleteered, phenmetrazine, underemphases. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 70 68 65 6D 65 72 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .... . -- . .-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101000 01100101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p h e m e r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 0068 0065 006D 0065 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3982747179718467 |
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