Usually means: Future generations; all descendants collectively.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word posterity:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. posterity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. posterity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. posterity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. posterity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. posterity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Posterity, posterity: Wordnik
  7. posterity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. posterity: Wiktionary
  9. posterity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. posterity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. posterity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. posterity: Dictionary.com
  13. posterity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Posterity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Posterity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. posterity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. posterity: Rhymezone
  18. posterity: Free Dictionary
  19. posterity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. posterity: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. posterity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. posterity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. posterity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  24. posterity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. posterity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. posterity: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

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    emerald,     sapphire,     gold,     silver,     ruby,     amethyst,     jade,     topaz,     pearl,     onyx



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