posterity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pos=ter=i=ty
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

posterity, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. postérité. See Posterior.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity."  [1913 Webster]
•  Succeeding generations; future times.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "Their names shall be transmitted to posterity."  [1913 Webster]

  "Their names shall be transmitted to posterity."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

posterity, n.
1 all succeeding generations.
2 the descendants of a person.

Etymology

ME f. OF posterit{eacute} f. L posteritas -tatis f. posterus: see POSTERIOR

DEVIL DICTIONARY

posterity

n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

THESAURUS

posterity

aftermath, agnate, ancestry, backup man, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brood, children, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, conclusion, connections, consanguinean, consequence, descendant, descendants, distaff side, distant relation, dynasty, effect, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, heir, heirs, inheritor, issue, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, near relation, next of kin, offspring, people, progeniture, progeny, relations, relatives, replacement, seed, sequel, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, successor, successors, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin

ROGET THESAURUS

posterity

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.