posterity

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (formal) all the people who will live in the future: Their music has been preserved for posterity. * Posterity will remember him as a great man.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

posterityEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus posterityEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary posterityEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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postal service postal vote postbag postbox postcard postcode post-date postdoctoral poster poste restante posterior

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