posterity

  • 11posterity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Future generations Nouns 1. posterity, progeny, issue, fruit, seed, offspring, young, flesh and blood; brood, litter, farrow, spawn, spat, clutch, seed, product; [extended, institutional, or nuclear]… …

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  • 12posterity — pos|ter|i|ty [pɔˈsterıti US pa: ] n [U] formal all the people in the future who will be alive after you are dead preserve/record/keep etc sth for posterity ▪ a priceless work of art that must be kept for posterity …

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  • 13posterity — noun (U) people who will live after you are dead: preserve sth for posterity: We must preserve these songs for posterity …

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  • 14posterity —    Future generations; or all of a person s decendants. What motivates an artist (or a collector or an educator) and to work really hard and well at it is most likely to be: pleasing oneself and the contemporaries about whom one most cares. Right …

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  • 15posterity — noun the names of those who died are recorded for posterity Syn: future generations, the future …

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  • 16posterity — [pɒˈsterəti] noun [U] the people who will live in the future after you are dead We have a duty to preserve great works of art for posterity.[/ex] …

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  • 17Posterity of Heaven — Hangul 천손 Hanja 天孫 Revised Romanization …

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  • 18posterity — noun Etymology: Middle English posterite, from Anglo French pusterité, from Latin posteritat , posteritas, from posterus coming after Date: 14th century 1. the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation 2. all future generations …

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  • 19posterity — noun /ˈpɒstɛɹɪti/ All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person …

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  • 20posterity — Synonyms and related words: aftermath, agnate, ancestry, backup man, blood, blood relation, blood relative, brood, children, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, conclusion, connections, consanguinean, consequence, descendant,… …

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