Posterity

Definition: Posterity

Posterity

Noun

1. All of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity".

2. All future generations.

Date "posterity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Posterity

Synonym: descendants (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Futurity	Heritage, heirs posterity.
Posterity	Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.
Record	Verb: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; (remember); commemorate; (celebrate); report; (inform); write, commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return.
Repute	Enthrone, signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name down to posterity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Posterity

English words defined with "posterity": Moabite ♦ To beat out of. (references)

Specialty definitions using "posterity": Ammon ♦ Dr. Diafoirus ♦ Hand Down to Posterity, Helez, HOMER ♦ Japhetidie ♦ NOAH ♦ Pelaiah ♦ Redgauntlet ♦ Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (references)

Etymologies containing "posterity": Shizoku. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)
Lyrics	And for posterity (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)
Movie/TV Titles	Message for Posterity (1967)
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Domain	Title
Books	Justice, Posterity, and the Environment (reference) Mozart & Posterity (reference) Poetry & Posterity (reference) Reforming Social Security: For Ourselves and Our Posterity (reference) Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 35) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Verdict of Posterity (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter." (quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption) This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side. Credit: NAVY.		America. To perpetuate to posterity the memory of those patriotic heroes, who fought, bled & died in establishing peace, liberty & tranquility to their country. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller	Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
John Dryden	A falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.
John Quincy Adams	Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Publius Cornelius Tacitus	Posterity will pay everyone their due.
	Posterity gives every man his true value.
Thomas Gray	As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done for us?
Walter Savage Landor	The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	The law, that was to govern Adam, was the same that was to govern all his posterity, the law of reason. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Who first brought the pox into a noble house, which has lineally descended in scrofulous tumors to their posterity.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Posterity may have cause to regret if from any motive intervals of tranquility are left unimproved for accelerating this valuable end.
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	I hope it may be said, a hundred years from now, that by working together we helped to make our country more just, more just for all of its people, as well as to insure and guarantee the blessings of liberty for all of our posterity.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Posterity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Posterity" is used about 179 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.44%	178	23,220
Noun (proper)	0.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	179	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "posterity".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Jethro	N/A	Biblical	His posterity
Non	N/A	Biblical	Posterity
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "posterity": hand one's name down to posterity ♦ heirs posterity. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "posterity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		brezat e ardhshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏نسل (breed, children, generation, lineage, offspring, parentage, procreate, progeny, ravel, seed, spawn), ‏عقب (commentate, heel), ‏الذرية, ‏الأجيال القادمة, ‏أجيال المستقبل. (various references)

Bulgarian		потомство (brood, generation, issue, offspring, progeny, seed, spawn), идни поколения. (various references)

Chinese		子孙 (Offspring), 子孫 (offspring), 後代 (later ages, later generations, later periods). (various references)

Czech		potomstvo (brood, descendants, offspring, progeny, seed), potomci, příští generace. (various references)

Dutch		nageslacht (issue, offspring, progeny). (various references)

Esperanto		posteuloj (issue, offspring, progeny). (various references)

Farsi		زادگان , ایندگان , اولاد (Breed, Issue, Offspring, Progeny, Seed, Slip), اعقاب (Breed, Lineage), اخلاف (Progeny, Successor). (various references)

Finnish		jälkipolvet (future generations), jälkimaailma (after-world). (various references)

French		posterité, postérité. (various references)

German		Nachwelt. (various references)

Greek		μεταγενέστεροι, απόγονοι (progeny). (various references)

Hebrew		אחרית (end, future, offspring, remnant). (various references)

Hungarian		utókor, leszármazottak (progeny). (various references)

Indonesian		memperabadikan (immortalize, perpetuate, record for posterity). (various references)

Italian		posterità. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		末孫 , 末 (close, end, finally, future, new growth, new shoots, powder, the end of, tip, top, top end, trivialities, youngest child), 来世 (the future, the next world), 子子孫孫 , 子孫　 (descendants, offspring), 子孫 (descendants, offspring), 後葉 (descendant, future generations), 後人 (future generations), 後昆 (grandchildren), 後の世 (after ages, future life, the next world), 後代 (future generations), 後世 (future life, life to come), 孫子 (children and grandchildren, descendants). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すえ (close, end, finally, future, tip, top, trivialities, youngest child), ししそんそん, しそん (descendants, offspring, the Emperor), まっそん, まごこ (children and grandchildren, descendants), のちのよ (after ages, future life, the next world), こうせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), こうこん (dusk, grandchildren, twilight), こうよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), こうじん (appreciative, artisan, cloud of dust, craftsman, dust, future generations, god of a cooking stove, laborer, mundane world, obliged, passer-by, pleased, public character, rear guard, reserve troops, second class, second fiddle, straw figure, tracked powder, traveler, workman), こうだい (extensive, future generations, grand, great, huge, immense, impressive, magnificent, technical college, vast, very large), らいせい (the future, the next world), らいせ (the future, the next world). (various references)

Korean		후세. (various references)

Manx		sluight (children's children, descendant, family, lineage, offspring, parentage, passage, progeniture, race, remnant, seed), sheeloghe (generation, old age), mooinjer ry heet. (various references)

Pig Latin		osteritypay.(various references)

Portuguese		posteridade, descendentes (succession). (various references)

Romanian		posteritate. (various references)

Russian		потомство (progeny). (various references)

Scottish		sliochd (decendants, offspring, seed), iarmad (offspring, remnant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		potomstvo (issue, progeny). (various references)

Spanish		posteridad. (various references)

Swedish		eftervärld, efterkommande (descendants, following, succeeding). (various references)

Turkish		soy (ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, birth, breed, cion, extraction, family, flesh and blood, genealogy, lineage, noble, offshoot, parentage, pedigree, phylo-, progeny, race, stirpes, stirps, stock, strain), nesil (birth, breed, descent, extraction, flesh and blood, generation, issue, lineage, loins, parentage, race, stock, strain), gelecek kuşaklar. (various references)

Turkmen		nesil (descendants, generation). (various references)

Ukrainian		нащадки (posterior, succession), потомство (generation, progeny, young ones). (various references)

Vietnamese		hậu thế, con cháu (descendant, offspring, progeniture, progeny, spawn). (various references)

Welsh		hiliogaeth (issue, offspring), hil (brood, lineage, race). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	posteri, posteris, posteritas, posteritatem, posteritatis, posteros, proles. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 7
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Apesteilen gar me o qeoV emprosqen umwn upoleipesqai umwn kataleimma epi thV ghV kai ekqreyai umwn kataleiyin megalhn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Praemisitque me Deus ut reservemini super terram et escas ad vivendum habere possitis
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	That ye ben kepte vpon erthe, and meetis to lyue han ye mowen.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Wherfore God sent me before you to make prouision that ye myghte continue in the erth and to save youre lyues by a greate delyuerance.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And God sent me before you, to preserve for you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 7
Cebuano	Ug ang Dios nagpadala kanako sa pag-una kaninyo aron sa pagbantay kaninyo nga mga salin dinhi sa yuta, ug sa pagluwas kaninyo nga buhi pinaagi sa daku nga pagkaluwas.
Chinese	神差我在你們以先來、為要給你們存留餘種在世上、又要大施拯救、保全你們的生命。
Croatian	Zato me Bog poslao pred vama da vam se saèuva ostatak na zemlji te da vam život spasi velikim izbavljenjem.
Danish	derfor sendte Gud mig forud for eder, for at I kan få Efterkommere på Jorden, og for at mange hos eder kan reddes og holdes i Live.
Dutch	Doch God heeft mij voor uw aangezicht henen gezonden, om u een overblijfsel te stellen op de aarde, en om u bij het leven te behouden, door een grote verlossing.
Finnish	Niin Jumala lähetti minut teidän edellänne säilyttääkseen teille jälkeläisiä maan päällä ja pitääkseen teidät hengissä, pelastukseksi monille.
French	Dieu m`a envoyé devant vous pour vous faire subsister dans le pays, et pour vous faire vivre par une grande délivrance.
German	Aber Gott hat mich vor euch her gesandt, daß er euch übrig behalte auf Erden und euer Leben errette durch eine große Errettung.
Haitian Creole	Bondye te voye m' vini devan pou ras nou an pa t' fini nan peyi a, pou m' te ka sove lavi nou, pou nou pa mouri.
Hungarian	Az Isten küldött el engem ti elõttetek, hogy míveljem a ti megmaradásotokat e földön, és hogy megmenthesselek titeket nagy szabadítással.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Allah telah membawa saya mendahului kalian untuk menyelamatkan kalian dengan cara yang mengherankan ini, dan untuk menjamin keselamatanmu dan kelanjutan keturunanmu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka disuruhkan Allah akan daku di hadapan kamu, hendak memeliharakan anak buahmu di atas bumi dan menghidupi nyawa kamu sekalian dengan pertolongan yang amat besar.
Italian	Dio mi ha mandato qui prima di voi, per assicurare a voi la sopravvivenza nel paese e per salvare in voi la vita di molta gente.
Maori	Kua tonoa mai nei hoki ahau e te Atua ki mua i a koutou kia whai putanga ai koutou ki te ao, kia ora ai hoki koutou i runga i te whakaoranga nui.
Norwegian	Men Gud har sendt mig i forveien for eder fordi han vilde levne eder en rest på jorden, og fordi han vilde holde eder i live, så det blev en stor frelse.
Rumanian	Dumnezeu m`a trimes knaintea voastrq ca sq vq rqmknq sqmknya vie kn yarq, wi ca sq vq pqstreze viaya printr`o mare izbqvire.
Swedish	Men Gud sände mig hit före eder, för att I skullen bliva kvar på jorden och behållas vid liv, ja, till räddning för många.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Posterity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: osterity, Osterrieth, poeticity, posperity, postarity, posterety, posteritys, posterty, prosterity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "posterity" (pronounced pÄste"rutē)
7	-s t e" r u t ē	austerity, dexterity.
5	-e" r u t ē	charity, clarity, disparity, familiarity, hilarity, insularity, irregularity, parity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, prosperity, rarity, regularity, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity.
4	-r u t ē	alacrity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, dissimilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, integrity, majority, maturity, mediocrity, minority, obscurity, particularity, priority, purity, security, seniority, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: spottier.
	-2 letters: isotype, potters, pottery, pottier, potties, prostie, protest, protist, pyrites, reposit, riposte, ropiest, spitter, spotter, tipster, tiptoes, typiest.
	-3 letters: esprit, osprey, otters, oyster, poetry, poiser, poster, potsie, potter, presto, pretty, priest, prosit, protei, pyrite, repots, respot, ripest, ripost, rottes, sitter, sopite, sortie, sporty, spotty, sprite, stoper, storey, stripe, stript, stripy, tepoys, tiptoe.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: pyrrhotites, stereotypic.
	+3 letters: attorneyship, hyperostotic, posteriority, pyrotechnist, stereotypies, stereotyping, streptolysin, streptomycin.
	+4 letters: attorneyships, pretentiously, pteridophytes, pyrotechnists, repetitiously, stereotypical, streptolysins, streptomycins.
	+5 letters: hypnotherapist, nortriptylines, petrochemistry, photochemistry, phytochemistry, presymptomatic, prosthetically, seropositivity, spermatophytic.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
posterity	7
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Posterity

Definition: Posterity

Posterity

Noun

Specialty Definition: Posterity

Satire

Synonym: Posterity

Synonyms within Context: Posterity

Futurity

Posterity

Record

Repute

Crosswords: Posterity

Modern Usage: Posterity

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Familiar Quotations: Posterity

Benjamin Disraeli

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

John Dryden

John Quincy Adams

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Thomas Gray

Walter Savage Landor

Historic Usage: Posterity

John Locke

US Constitution

Use in Literature: Posterity

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Speeches: Posterity

George Washington

Ulysses S. Grant

Lyndon B. Johnson

Bill Clinton

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Derived & Related Names: Posterity

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