posterity
/pɑˈstɛrəti/
noun
- All future generations of people, especially those who will live after the present time.
- We must protect the environment for the sake of posterity.
- Historians record events so that posterity can learn from the past.
- The artist created his masterpiece with the hope that posterity would admire it.
- A person's descendants or children.
- She wrote a memoir to share her life story with her posterity.
- The king's wealth was passed down to his posterity for many centuries.
- The family tree shows how the couple's posterity spread across the country.
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