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–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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n.

Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" (Joyce Carol Oates).
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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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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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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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.

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