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pos·ter·i·ty    Audio Help   [po-ster-i-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
2.all descendants of one person: His fortune was gradually dissipated by his posterity.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME posterite < L posteritās, n. deriv. of posterus coming after. See posterior, -ity]
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pos·ter·i·ty    Audio Help   (pŏ-stěr'ĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" (Joyce Carol Oates).
  2. All of a person's descendants.


[Middle English posterite, from Old French, from Latin posteritās, from posterus, coming after; see posterior.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
posterity 
1387, from O.Fr. posterité, from L. posteritatem (nom. posteritas) "the condition of coming after," from posterus "coming after, subsequent," from post "after."

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posterity

noun
1. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity" [syn: descendants
2. all future generations 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
posterity [poˈsterəti] noun
people coming after; future generations
Example: The treasures must be kept for posterity.
Arabic: أجيال قادِمَه
Chinese (Simplified): 子孙,后裔,后代
Chinese (Traditional): 子孫,後裔,後代
Czech: potomstvo
Danish: eftertiden
Dutch: nageslacht
Estonian: järeltulevad põlved
Finnish: jälkipolvet
French: postérité
German: die Nachwelt
Greek: οι μέλλουσες γενιές
Hungarian: utókor
Icelandic: komandi kynslóðir
Indonesian: keturunan
Italian: posterità
Japanese: 子孫
Korean: 후세, 자손
Latvian: nākamās paaudzes; nākamība
Lithuanian: palikuonys, būsimosios kartos
Norwegian: kommende slekter, etterkommere
Polish: potomność
Portuguese (Brazil): posteridade
Portuguese (Portugal): posteridade
Romanian: posteritate
Russian: потомки
Slovak: potomstvo
Slovenian: potomstvo
Spanish: posteridad
Swedish: efterkommande, eftervärld
Turkish: gelecek kuşaklar
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Posterity

Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]

1. 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.

If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. --Shak.

2. Succeeding generations; future times. --Shak.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. --Shak.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. --Smalridge.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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