Usually means: Lasting for a very short time.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word ephemeral:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ephemeral: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ephemeral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ephemeral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ephemeral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ephemeral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ephemeral, ephemeral: Wordnik
  7. ephemeral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ephemeral: Wiktionary
  9. ephemeral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ephemeral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ephemeral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ephemeral: Dictionary.com
  13. ephemeral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ephemeral (EP), Ephemeral (Pelican album), Ephemeral (disambiguation), Ephemeral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ephemeral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ephemeral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ephemeral: Rhymezone
  18. Ephemeral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ephemeral: Free Dictionary
  20. ephemeral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ephemeral: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. ephemeral: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ephemeral: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Ephemeral: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ephemeral: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

(Note: See ephemerally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something which lasts for a short period of time.
adjective:  Lasting for a short period of time.
adjective:  (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
adjective:  (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

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