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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun posterity has 2 senses
- posterity(n = noun.group) descendants - all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity" is a kind of biological group
- posterity(n = noun.group) - all future generations; is a kind of generation
CIDE DICTIONARY
posterity, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. postérité. See Posterior.].
- The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. [1913 Webster]"If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity." [1913 Webster]
- Succeeding generations; future times. Shak. [1913 Webster]"Their names shall be transmitted to posterity." [1913 Webster]"Their names shall be transmitted to posterity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
posterity, n.
1 all succeeding generations.
2 the descendants of a person.
1 all succeeding generations.
2 the descendants of a person.
Etymology
ME f. OF posterit{eacute} f. L posteritas -tatis f. posterus: see POSTERIOR
DEVIL DICTIONARY
posterity
n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.THESAURUS
posterity
aftermath, agnate, ancestry, backup man, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brood, children, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, conclusion, connections, consanguinean, consequence, descendant, descendants, distaff side, distant relation, dynasty, effect, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, heir, heirs, inheritor, issue, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, near relation, next of kin, offspring, people, progeniture, progeny, relations, relatives, replacement, seed, sequel, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, successor, successors, sword side, tribesman, uterine kinROGET THESAURUS
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Posterity
N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.
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