extant

[ ek-stuh nt, ik-stant ]

/ ˈɛk stənt, ɪkˈstænt /

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adjective

in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost: There are only three extant copies of the document.

Archaic. standing out; protruding.

Nearby words

exstrophy, exstrophy of bladder, exstrophy of cloaca, ext, ext., extant, extd., extemporal, extemporaneous, extemporaneously, extemporary

Origin of extant

1535–45; < Latin ex(s)tant- (stem of ex(s)tāns) standing out, present participle of exstāre, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + stāre to stand

Related formsnon·ex·tant, adjective

Can be confusedextant extent

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In fact, Lau believes that cases of sexual assault do not belong in a university, but in the extant legal and judicial systems.
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One might generously say that Simpson and Bowles are just bowing to the extant political reality.
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Of these five poets, some were not born when Pope's version was published; and, of the rest, not one had penned a line now extant.
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The extant educational system suffers from a threefold inadequacy.
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The first of these letters has not come down to us, the two last are extant.
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His Annals are yet extant, and prove him to have been a man of great and various learning.
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In this greater and more mature work Sallust may have avoided some of the faults of style that appear in the extant treatises.
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British Dictionary definitions for extant

extant

/ (ɛkˈstænt, ˈɛkstənt) /

adjective

still in existence; surviving

archaic standing out; protruding

Word Origin for extant

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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Word Origin and History for extant

extant

adj.

1540s, "standing out above a surface," from Latin extantem (nominative extans), present participle of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" attested in English by 1560s.

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extant

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