Extant meaning

ĕk'stənt, ĕk-stănt'
Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct.

Extant manuscripts.

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Standing out; conspicuous.
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The definition of extant is something that still exists.

An example of extant used as an adjective is an extant law which means a law that is currently active.

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Currently existing; not having disappeared.
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Still alive; not extinct.
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Standing out; projecting.
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Still existing; not extinct; not lost or destroyed.
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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

  • in his last extant public letter before his death.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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