Dictionary Entry
posterity
posterity is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Succeeding generations; future times.
- 3noun
all future generations
- 4noun
all of the offspring of a given progenitor
"we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
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