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posterity

  (pŏ-stĕr'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n.
  1. Future generations: “Everything he writes is consigned to posterity” (Joyce Carol Oates).
  2. All of a person's descendants.

[Middle English posterite, from Old French, from Latin posteritās, from posterus, coming after. See posterior.]


 
 
Thesaurus: posterity

noun

    A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors: brood, get, issue, offspring, progeny, seed. See kin.

 
Antonyms: posterity

n

Definition: forever; future generations
Antonyms: past


 
A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce


n.

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


 
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IN BRIEF: All generations to come.

pronunciation After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. — George Ade (1866-1944)

 
Quotes About: Posterity

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"We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us." - Joseph Addison

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity." - George Ade

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing." - Jorge Luis Borges

"Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else." - Heywood Broun

"A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity." - Miguel De Cervantes

"History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking." - Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

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Translations: Translations for: Posterity

Dansk (Danish)
n. - senere slægter

Nederlands (Dutch)
nageslacht, komende generaties

Français (French)
n. - postérité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Nachwelt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οι) μεταγενέστεροι, (οι) απόγονοι, (οι) επιγενόμενοι

Italiano (Italian)
posterità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - posteridade (f)

Русский (Russian)
потомки

Español (Spanish)
n. - descendencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - eftervärlden, kommande generationer

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
子孙, 后裔

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 子孫, 後裔

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자손

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 後世, 子孫

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ذريه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צאצאים, הדורות הבאים‬


 
 

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