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Extant

//ˈɛk.stənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Still in existence; not having disappeared. not-comparable

    "extant manuscripts of the Old Testament"

  2. 2
    Still alive; not extinct. not-comparable

    "extant birds"

  3. 3
    Standing out, or above the rest. not-comparable, obsolete

    "[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts."

Adjective
  1. 1
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1545, from Latin extantem, extāns, present participle of extō (“to stand out, exist, be extant”), from ex- (“out”) + stō (“stand”).

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