Thesaurus: posterity
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 poster…
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Definitions
- 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; as, the posterity of Abraham.
- n. Succeeding generations; future times.
- n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor
- n. all future generations
- n:100 n. all future generations