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An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
Kim Ki-duk

Meaning of "ephemeral" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EPHEMERAL

From Greek ephēmeros lasting only a day, from hēmera day.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EPHEMERAL

ephemeral  [ɪˈfɛmərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPHEMERAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ephemeral can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EPHEMERAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ephemeral

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Definition of ephemeral in the English dictionary

The first definition of ephemeral in the dictionary is lasting for only a short time; transitory; short-lived. Other definition of ephemeral is a short-lived organism, such as the mayfly. Ephemeral is also a plant that completes its life cycle in less than one year, usually less than six months.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPHEMERAL


admiral
ˈædmərəl
ahemeral
æˈhɛmərəl
antitumoral
ˌæntɪˈtjuːmərəl
bicameral
baɪˈkæmərəl
cameral
ˈkæmərəl
femerell
ˈfemərəl
femoral
ˈfɛmərəl
hephthemimeral
ˌhɛfθɪˈmɪmərəl
hexameral
hɛkˈsæmərəl
humeral
ˈhjuːmərəl
humoral
ˈhjuːmərəl
interfemoral
ˌɪntəˈfɛmərəl
metameral
mɪˈtæmərəl
nemoral
ˈnɛmərəl
neurohumoral
ˌnjʊərəʊˈhjuːmərəl
numeral
ˈnjuːmərəl
nychthemeral
nɪkˈθiːmərəl
superhumeral
ˌsuːpəˈhjuːmərəl
tetrameral
tɛˈtræmərəl
unicameral
ˌjuːnɪˈkæmərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPHEMERAL

ephebic
ephebophilia
ephedra
ephedrin
ephedrine
ephelis
ephemera
ephemerae
ephemerality
ephemerally
ephemeralness
ephemerid
ephemerides
ephemeridian
ephemeris
ephemeris time
ephemerist
ephemeron
ephemeropteran
ephemerous

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPHEMERAL

Arabic numeral
attorney general
bilateral
cardinal numeral
collateral
director general
director-general
Distrito Federal
federal
funeral
general
in general
lateral
liberal
literal
mineral
peripheral
Roman numeral
several
tricameral

Synonyms and antonyms of ephemeral in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EPHEMERAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ephemeral» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ephemeral

Translation of «ephemeral» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EPHEMERAL

Find out the translation of ephemeral to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ephemeral from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ephemeral» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

短暂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

efímero
570 millions of speakers

English

ephemeral
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अल्पकालिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سريع الزوال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эфемерным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

efêmero
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষণজীবী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éphémère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak lama lagi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kurzlebig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

はかない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

임시
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ephemeral
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không lâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறுங்கால
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तात्पुरती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fani
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effimero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

efemeryczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ефемерним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

efemer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εφήμερο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kortstondig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

efemära
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

flyktig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ephemeral

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPHEMERAL»

The term «ephemeral» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.304 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EPHEMERAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ephemeral» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ephemeral» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ephemeral

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10 QUOTES WITH «EPHEMERAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ephemeral.
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Daniel Alarcon
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Sri Chinmoy
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
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Christian Dior
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
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Brian Eno
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
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Richard E. Grant
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
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Max Heindel
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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Dee Hock
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
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JR
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
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Kim Ki-duk
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
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Florence King
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPHEMERAL»

Discover the use of ephemeral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ephemeral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early ...
In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents -- incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine.
Holly Dugan, 2011
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Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure
The authors of the eight essays in Ephemeral Bodies--including the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal "History of Portraiture in Wax" (1910-11)--break new ground as they explore wax reproductions of the body or body ...
Roberta Panzanelli, 2008
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The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously ...
"Bellamy's powerful analyses push back against many assumptions and 'inherited wisdom' in South Asian scholarship about religion, personhood, the body, health and violence.
Carla Bellamy, 2011
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Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image
Dancers, choreographers, & directors are embracing screendance: capturing dance as a moving image mediated by a camera.
Douglas Rosenberg, 2012
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Ephemeral/portable architecture
Providing technical and design detail through as series of high profile built projects, this book showcases the very best from a diverse range of designs.
Robert Kronenburg, 1998
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Up in Flames: The Ephemeral Art of Pasted-paper Sculpture in ...
This comprehensive study of the traditional Chinese craft of paper sculpture documents the ancient craft as it exists today in Taiwan.
Ellen Johnston Laing, Helen Hui-Ling Liu, 2004
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The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of ...
In this illustrated book, an eminent art historian examines the intriguing history and significance of the international art exhibition of the Old Master paintings.
Francis Haskell, 2000
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Ephemeral Fantasies
A compilation of many years of my poems; they are all rather abstract and inlaid with metaphor, though some are simple.The poems in this particular book range from love - which are abstract and generally may be difficult to grasp on the ...
Nick Blaze, 2009
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Dryland Rivers: Hydrology and Geomorphology of Semi-arid ...
Dryland Rivers is the first text to focus on dryland channel networks and processes and presents a historical framework for research, discusses examples of current studies and evaluates contemporary modelling approaches.
Louise J. Bull, M. J. Kirkby, 2002
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UNIX Network Programming
The upper limit of 49151 for these ports was introduced to allow a range for ephemeral ports; RFC 1700 [Reynolds and Postel 1994] lists the upper range as 65535. 3. The dynamic or private ports, 49152 through 65535. The IANA says nothing ...
W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPHEMERAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ephemeral is used in the context of the following news items.
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Exclusive first look: Thanks to the 'Peanuts Movie,' here's your new …
I think what they did in ['The Peanuts Movie'] was to make that experience ephemeral. And then in the end, she makes a real statement about ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?
Readerships that seem large now will turn out to be as ephemeral as Snapchats. "I think John tends to be ahead of these things because he ... «The Verge, Jul 15»
3
Meet the guy behind the music you hear when you're shopping at …
After the show while we were driving home, I had to explain to a very dejected daughter about the ephemeral nature of pop music. «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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The clock is ticking to stop the EPA's latest overreach (Opinion)
Failure to precisely define these terms means the EPA could regulate dry ditches or ephemeral streams, which only hold water after a heavy ... «Yellowhammer News, Jul 15»
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Exclusive: Listen to Heaters' Newest Track "Propane" Before Their …
... the vocals on “Propane” have a searing, ephemeral quality. If you focus too long on a word or phrase, it's already gone with a ghostly echo, ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
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ViralNova Just Got Bought for $100 Million – Has the Viral Publisher …
David Anderson, senior vice president at MediaLink, said that publishers' social-media expertise may be ephemeral. Thus, they need to ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
Connecticut Craves Its Croakers
Lamentably, restaurants are ephemeral and smart travelers check to ensure such businesses are open. But one need not worry about a decline ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
8
The best TV show you're not watching
Everyone has their own version of what just happened and what happened 20 years ago and how ephemeral that is.” That might be the most ... «HLNtv.com, Jul 15»
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Could DeAndre Jordan's Free-Agency Flip-Flop 'F*ck Up The Whole …
... “Free agent agreements made during the moratorium are ephemeral — they're ghosts, illusions — agreements that aren't really agreements. «UPROXX, Jul 15»
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'Satisfaction guaranteed' in Turkish duo's Italy exhibition
The pattern comes from ephemeral stickers such as candy's ephemeral nature. And the promise here is an instant joy and satisfaction that will ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»

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