posterity

Roget-categorie 167

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.3. Power in operation

#167. Posterity

zelfstandig naamwoord

posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat — family, grandchildren, heirs — great-grandchild.
child, son, daughter — butcha^† — bantling, scion — acrospire^†, plumule^†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit^†, branch — off-shoot, off-set — ramification — descendant — heir, heiress — heir-apparent, heir-presumptive — chip off the old block — heredity — rising generation.
straight descent, sonship^†, line, lineage, filiation^†, primogeniture.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

filial — diphyletic^†.

uitdrukking

the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth]; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree," like father, like son."

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