Posterity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity” ( Joyce Carol Oates).
  • n. All of a person's descendants.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Succeeding generations; future times.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Descendants collectively; the race that proceeds from a progenitor.
  • n. Succeeding generations collectively.
  • n. Posteriority.
  • n. Synonyms Issue, Progeny, etc. See offspring.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor
  • n. all future generations
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biological group    generation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    descendants    descendant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Solidarity    Verity    barbarity    celerity    clarity    dexterity    disparity    familiarity    hilarity    irregularity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mankind    descendant    progeny    spectator    reader    populace    critic    ancestor    offspring    admirer   
     
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