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extant
still existing; not destroyed: There is only one extant copy of the book.
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ex·tant
(ĕk′stənt, ĕk-stănt′)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; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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extant
(ɛkˈstænt; ˈɛkstənt)adj
1. still in existence; surviving
2. archaic standing out; protruding
[C16: from Latin exstāns standing out, from exstāre, from stāre to stand]
Usage: Extant is sometimes wrongly used simply to say that something exists, without any connotation of survival: plutonium is perhaps the deadliest element in existence (not the deadliest element extant)
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ex•tant
(ˈɛk stənt, ɪkˈstænt)adj.
1. still existing; not destroyed or lost: only three extant copies of the document.
2. Archaic. standing out; protruding.
[1535–45; < Latin ex(s)tant-, s. of ex(s)tāns, present participle of exstāre to stand out, exist =ex- ex-1 + stāre to stand]
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extant
- Comes from Latin ex-, "out," and stare, "to stand," and means "currently or actually in existence."See also related terms for stare.
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Adj. | 1. | extant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd |
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extant
adjective in existence, existing, remaining, surviving, living, existent, subsisting, undestroyed The oldest extant copy is dated 1492.
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extant
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Translations
موجود، لا يزال قائِما
dochovalýdochovanýexistující
bevareteksisterende
sem er til, sem hefur varîveist
išlikęs
pastāvošssaglabājies
existujúci
hâlâ mevcut
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extant
(ekˈstӕnt) , ((American) ˈekstənt) adjective still existing.
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