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# ephemera

«ephemera» in Mova's school dictionary: **insects, such as mayflies, that live only a very short…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ephemera, plural of ephemeron)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ephemera are insects, such as mayflies, that live only a very short time as adults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#m1)

2) Ephemera are printed things, such as tickets or posters, that are kept for a short time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the short-lived insects that live only one summer day; in talk, the second sense is used by collectors

### examples

- The ephemera danced over the river all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#x1)
- The ephemera of one summer day seemed endless to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#x2)
- The museum keeps old ticket ephemera from the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#x3)
- Each ephemera in the box was a poster from a show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ephemera» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ephemera/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.