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Posterity

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Noun

1. descendants, posterity

all of the offspring of a given progenitor

Example Sentences:
'we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity'

2. posterity

all future generations

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Posterity

see synonyms of posterity
noun
1. 
future or succeeding generations
2. 
all of one's descendants

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Posterity

see synonyms of posterity
noun
1. 
all of a person's descendants
see also ancestry
2. 
all succeeding generations

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Posterity

see synonyms of posterity
n.
1. Future generations: "Everything he writes is consigned to posterity" (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. All of a person's descendants.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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