| slovo | definícia |
posterity
(encz) | posterity,potomci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Posterity
(gcide) | Posterity \Pos*ter"i*ty\, n. [L. posteritas: cf. F.
post['e]rit['e]. See Posterior.]
1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the
furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who
are descended from an ancestor of a generation;
descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the
posterity of Abraham.
[1913 Webster]
If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Succeeding generations; future times. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
--Smalridge.
[1913 Webster] |
posterity
(wn) | posterity
n 1: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure
the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
[syn: descendants, posterity]
2: all future generations |
posterity
(devil) | POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a
popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure
competitor.
|
POSTERITY
(bouvier) | POSTERITY, descents. All the descendants of a person in a direct line.
|
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
posterity
(encz) | posterity,potomci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
posterity
(wn) | posterity
n 1: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure
the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
[syn: descendants, posterity]
2: all future generations |
posterity
(devil) | POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a
popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure
competitor.
|
POSTERITY
(bouvier) | POSTERITY, descents. All the descendants of a person in a direct line.
|
|