posterity

Noun

Meaning

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.

Succeeding generations; future times.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

descendants infinity millennium family later future issue child fruit spawn daughter generation stock seed descent
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Antonyms

daddy father past parent breeding descent
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Hypernyms

generation biological group

Related terms

post-

Examples

we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity Source: Internet

Although he was invited by the Heyburn Initiative, which bills itself as the nation's only center devoted to the preservation of the federal judicial history, a university archivist was barred from recording Gorsuch's talk to preserve it for posterity. Source: Internet

According to Tacitus, Agrippina’s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity. Source: Internet

Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. Source: Internet

A law officer and friend, Patrick DuVal, passing by the house where she had lived, stopped and put out the fire, thus saving an invaluable collection of literary documents for posterity. Source: Internet

Before that time, the individual had to be content that his posterity continued within the holy nation. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

posterish posterishness posterist posterization posterize posterlike