Extant Definition

ĕkstənt, ĕk-stănt
adjective
Still existing; not extinct; not lost or destroyed.
Webster's New World
Standing out; conspicuous.
Webster's New World

Still in existence.

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Origin of Extant

  • Latin exstāns exstant- present participle of exstāre to stand out ex- ex- stāre to stand stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • First attested in 1545, from Latin extantem, from extō, from ex- (“out”) + stō (“stand”).

    From Wiktionary

Extant Sentence Examples

  • His will, which is extant, was signed on the fourth day before his death.

  • But he has carefully consulted the best authorities, and his work and that of Livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of early Roman history.

  • Four copies of this work are extant, but in none is the title;page preserved.

  • The first recorded appearance of Henry Chicheley himself is at New College, Oxford, as Checheley, eighth among the undergraduate fellows, in July 1387, in the earliest extant hall-book, which contains weekly lists of those dining in Hall.

  • It was a great city under the Sassanids, of which some ruins are extant.

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Words Starting With

EEXEXT

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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