extant

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(ĕk'stənt, ĕk-stănt') pronunciation
adj.
  1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts.
  2. Archaic. Standing out; projecting.

[Latin exstāns, exstant-, present participle of exstāre, to stand out : ex-, ex- + stāre, to stand.]



used to mean just 'existing', so that heresy, fashion, roads, etc. could all be extant. Now, it means 'continuing to exist', i.e. having withstood the ravages of time, so that ancient texts, fossils, species, literature, organisms, old churches, etc. are the kinds of thing now described as extant.

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adjective

  1. Occurring or existing in act or fact: actual, existent. See be, real/imaginary.
  2. Having existence or life: alive, around, existent, existing, living. See live/die.


adj

Definition: in existence
Antonyms: dead, extinct, gone

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Still existing and known.

pronunciation The horseshoe crab lived at the time of the dinosaurs and is still extant even today.

Tutor's tip: They probed the "extent" (amount, area, degree) of the collection to see if one of the few "extant" (still in existence) paintings by the artist might be found.

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Extant may refer to:

  • Extant literature, surviving literature, such as Beowulf, the oldest extant manuscript written in English
  • Extant taxon, a taxon which is not extinct, such as an extant species
  • Hank Hall, also known as Extant, the DC Comics supervillain

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Common misspelling(s) of extant

  • extint

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - bevaret, eksisterende

Nederlands (Dutch)
bestaand, niet verloren gegaan

Français (French)
adj. - existant, qui existe encore

Deutsch (German)
adj. - vorhanden

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - υφιστάμενος, (δια)σωζόμενος

Italiano (Italian)
ancora esistente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - existente

Русский (Russian)
существующий, живой, нынешний

Español (Spanish)
adj. - existente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - bevarad, i behåll, kvarvarande

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
现存的, 未毁的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 現存的, 未毀的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 남아 있는, 현존하는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 現存している, 現存する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) باق, موجود‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קיים, עדיין נמצא‬


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