ephemera
noun
a plural of ephemeron.
ephemerae
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pluralof ephemera.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
Verily for us, the ephemerae of thought, this unbroken continuity of the sun of Egypt has more of melancholy even than the changing, overcast skies of our climate.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang
