- still existing; not extinct; not lost or destroyed
- Archaic standing out; conspicuous
Origin of extant
Classical Latin extans, exstans, present participle of exstare, to stand out or forth from ex-, out + stare, stand
adjective
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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extant
adjective
- Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts.
- Archaic Standing out; projecting.
Origin of extant
Latin exstāns exstant- present participle of exstāre to stand out ex- ex- stāre to stand ; see stā- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more extant, superlative most extant)
- Still in existence.
- Currently existing; not having disappeared.
- Still alive; not extinct.
Origin
First attested in 1545, from Latin extantem, from extō, from ex- (“out”) + stō (“stand”).
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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.
- 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.
- His will, which is extant, was signed on the fourth day before his death.
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