ephemera

1. 1.

   something transitory; lasting a day

   Broadertime

Other forms of ephemera

plural

ephemerae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ephemera

What does ephemera mean?

ephemera means "something transitory; lasting a day".

How many syllables are in ephemera?

ephemera has 4 syllables: e-phe-me-ra. The stress falls on "phe".

Is ephemera a common word?

ephemera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.