See ephemerous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more ephemerous",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ephemerous",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ephemerous (comparative more ephemerous, superlative most ephemerous)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "ephemeroid"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
33,
43
]
],
"ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 282:",
"text": "Hope, fear, alarm, jealouſy, the ephemerous tale that does its buſineſs and dies in a day, all theſe things, which are the reins and ſpurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not eaſily employed, or hardly at all, amongſt ſcattered people.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ephemeral."
],
"id": "en-ephemerous-en-adj-j47dcd4E",
"links": [
[
"Ephemeral",
"ephemeral"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Ephemeral."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"word": "ephemerous"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "ephemeroid"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "more ephemerous",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ephemerous",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ephemerous (comparative more ephemerous, superlative most ephemerous)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
33,
43
]
],
"ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 282:",
"text": "Hope, fear, alarm, jealouſy, the ephemerous tale that does its buſineſs and dies in a day, all theſe things, which are the reins and ſpurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not eaſily employed, or hardly at all, amongſt ſcattered people.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Ephemeral."
],
"links": [
[
"Ephemeral",
"ephemeral"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) Ephemeral."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"word": "ephemerous"
}
Download raw JSONL data for ephemerous meaning in English (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.