英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pɒˈstɛɹɪti/
• 韻: -ɛɹəti, -ɛɹɪti

名詞

posterity (usually uncountable, plural posterities)

1. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

2. (transferred sense, almost always preceded by for) Future audiences, future times, future recognition.

関連する語

• See post-

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