Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Future generations.
- noun All of a person's descendants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Descendants collectively; the race that proceeds from a progenitor.
- noun Succeeding generations collectively.
- noun Posteriority.
- noun Synonyms Issue, Progeny, etc. See
offspring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 . - noun Succeeding generations; future times.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun All the
future generations , especially thedescendants of aspecific person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all of the offspring of a given progenitor
- noun all future generations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After all, what we term posterity is but a drop of water in the ocean of Time.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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Further, to think of organizing these papers for the sake of posterity is to think of posterity, which is the same as thinking of dying, which is different from vanity but equally unpleasant.
My “Papers” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Her message translated as "that you should have a delightful day with your children and dearest friends, that it should be a day worthy of remembering in posterity, full of happiness, tenderness, and special memories."
A Mexican Valentine 2009
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Creating photographic records for posterity is not new for Highsmith.
Carol Highsmith, on a 16-year quest to photograph America for the Library of Congress Neely Tucker 2010
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Her message translated as "that you should have a delightful day with your children and dearest friends, that it should be a day worthy of remembering in posterity, full of happiness, tenderness, and special memories."
A Mexican Valentine 2009
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And the news business, which once took pride in what it put down for posterity, is all atwitter with tweets and insta-posts by self-appointed experts on a bazillion blogs.
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But how does the Cottesloe family feel about the loss of its foothold in posterity?
Dorfman or Cottesloe? Does it matter what a theatre is called? Michael Billington 2010
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Any writer writing for posterity is kidding him or herself.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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“Thy Lord drew forth their posterity from the loins of the sons of Adam;” and the commentators say that Allah stroked
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Alldas. de, a site that mirrors defaced websites for posterity, is shutting down.
Boing Boing: February 10, 2002 - February 16, 2002 Archives 2002
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