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"preserve",
"preserve"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Things without long-term durability: transient things.",
"Manmade objects that are short-lived (under usual conditions), usually because their design intent is to be inexpensively made and thus affordably bought, a goal that often is an engineering trade-off versus durability.",
"(by extension) Transitory audiovisual matter not intended to be retained or preserved."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪˈfɛməɹə/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ephemera.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ephemera.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ephemera.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/38/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ephemera.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ephemera.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "short lived items",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "efemeryda"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "library science",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "akcydens"
}
],
"word": "ephemera"
}
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