posterity

Main Entry:
posterity [po-ster-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: future generations
Synonyms: breed, brood, children, descendants, family, heirs, issue, lineage, next generation, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, stock, succeeding generations, successors, unborn
Antonyms: past
Main Entry: brood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cluster of children
Synonyms: begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young
Antonyms: child
Main Entry: descendant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person in line of ancestry
Synonyms: brood, child, children, chip off old block, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off
Antonyms: ascendant, predecessor
Main Entry: future
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: time to come
Synonyms: aftertime, afterward, by and by, destiny, eternity, expectation, fate, futurity, hereafter, infinity, life to come, millennium, morrow, offing, outlook, posterity, prospect, subsequent time, to be, tomorrow, world to come
Antonyms: past
Main Entry: issue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: children
Synonyms: brood, descendants, get, heirs, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed
Antonyms: parent
Main Entry: offspring
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: child, children
Synonyms: baby, bambino, brood, chip off old block, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeniture, progeny, pup, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young
Antonyms: parent
Main Entry: progeny
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offspring
Synonyms: begats, breed, children, descendants, family, get*, issue, kids, lineage, posterity, progeniture, race, scions, seed, stock, young
Antonyms: parent
Main Entry: seed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: children
Synonyms: brood, descendants, heirs, issue, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, race, scions, spawn, successors
Notes: cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat
a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants
Antonyms: ancestor, parent
Related Words
Main Entry: future
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
Related
Adjectives:
close at hand, coming, eventual, future, in prospect, near, near at hand, next, to come, ulterior
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