Definitions for posterity

posterity pos·ter·i·ty

Spelling: [po-ster-i-tee]
IPA: /pɒˈstɛr ɪ ti/

Posterity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 503 anagrams from letters in posterity (eioprstty).

Definitions for posterity

noun

  1. succeeding or future generations collectively:
  2. all descendants of one person:

Origin of posterity

1350-1400; Middle English posterite Latin posteritās, noun derivative of posterus coming after. See posterior, -ity

Examples for posterity

Her face was cast into a plaster mold, preserving her shy smile for posterity.

His own public had unjustly neglected him, posterity consigned his operas to oblivion.

A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union.

And our victory in that war decided not just a century, but shaped the security and well-being of all posterity.

If not for posterity, if not for the defense of the United States Constitution, then do it for Mickey.

Obtaining this understanding and posterity is easy, according to the website.

He enjoys not a little--it has been often said--of the position of posterity.

As he once told Brassai, the Gagosian exhibition catalog states, “I want to leave as complete a record as possible for posterity.”

He is the representative of posterity,—the man of an age to come.

Here the posterity of your Mynherr Knickerbocker do likewise.

Word Value for posterity
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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