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Extant
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What's The Definition Of Extant?
[adj] still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd
Synonyms | Synonyms for Extant: living | surviving Related Terms | Find terms related to Extant: actual | alive | around | as is | being | contemporaneous | contemporary | current | existent | existing | fresh | immanent | immediate | in being | in effect | in existence | in force | instant | latest | living | modern | new | on foot | present | present-age | present-day | present-time | prevalent | running | subsistent | subsisting | that be | that is | topical | under the sun | up-to-date | up-to-the-minute See Also | existent | existing Extant In Webster's Dictionary \Ex"tant\, a. [L. extans, -antis, or exstans, -antis, p.
pr. of extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out + stare
to stand: cf. F. extant. See {Stand}.]
1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
That part of the teeth which is extant above the
gums. --Ray.
A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
--Bentley.
2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
Writings that were extant at that time. --Sir M.
Hale.
The extant portraits of this great man. --I. Taylor.
3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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