English-Thai Dictionary

posterity

N คนชั้นหลัง  คน รุ่น ลู กรุ่น หลาน  younger generation successors lineage kon-chan-lang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POSTERITY

n.[L. posteritas, from posterus, from post, after. ] 1. Descendants; children, children's children, etc. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor. The whole human race are the posterity of Adam.
2. In a general sense, succeeding generations; opposed to ancestors.
To the unhappy that unjustly bleed,
Heav'n gives posterity t' avenge the deed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POSTERITY

Pos *ter "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. posteritas: cf. F. postérité. 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. If [the crown ] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.

 

2. Succeeding generations; future times. Shak. Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. Shak. Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. Smalridge.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

posterity

pos ter i ty |päˈsteritē pɑˈstɛrədi | ▶noun all future generations of people: the victims' names are recorded for posterity. • [ in sing. ] archaic the descendants of a person: God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French posterite, from Latin posteritas, from posterus ‘following. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

posterity

pos |ter ¦ity |pɒˈstɛrɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] all future generations of people: the victims' names are recorded for posterity. • [ in sing. ] archaic the descendants of a person: God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French posterite, from Latin posteritas, from posterus ‘following ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

posterity

posterity noun the names of those who died are recorded for posterity: future generations, the future.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

posterity

posterity noun 1 the names of those who died are recorded for posterity on a framed scroll: future generations, succeeding generations, those who come after us; the future. 2 archaic God appeared to Abraham with a promise that his posterity should inhabit the land: descendants, heirs, successors, offspring, children, family, progeny, scions; Law issue; archaic seed.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

posterity

pos ter i ty /pɑstérəti |pɔs -/名詞 U 〖集合的に 〗後世 (の人々 ); 子孫 (↔ancestry )▸ go down to posterity 子孫まで [後世まで ]伝える ▸ preserve A for posterity Aを後世まで残す .