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# posterity

«posterity» in Mova's school dictionary: **All the people who will live in the future, long after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

All the people who will live in the future, long after us; the children and grandchildren still to come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posterity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a tale or deed that will be remembered by later people; «to posterity» means for the future.

### examples

- The king said the tale must not be lost to posterity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posterity/#x1)
- What is good will shine brightly through posterity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posterity/#x2)
- We write things down so that posterity can read them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posterity/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2027/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «posterity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posterity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.