posterity

CEFRC1

/pɒˈstɛɹɪti/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    People who will live in the future, especially someone’s descendants.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Future audiences, future times, future recognition.

Examples

  • These paintings will be left here for posterity.

  • We must hand down our craft to posterity.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

More examples

In context

  • That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.

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The time capsule was buried to be opened by blank, the people of the future.

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Origin

noun

Late 14th century, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritas, from posterus (“following, coming after”), from post (“after”) (English post-).