Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Posterity

Nouns
  • 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.
Adjectives
  • filial
  • diphyletic.
Phrases
  • the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth]
  • the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, " like father, like son."