Extant

/ˈɛk.stənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Still in existence; not having disappeared..

Definitions by Sense

1. Still in existence; not having disappeared.
2. Still alive; not extinct.
3. (obsolete) Standing out, or above the rest.

Example Sentences

extant manuscripts of the Old Testament

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

This English Nation, will it get to know the meaning of its strange new Today? Is there sense enough extant, discoverable anywhere or anyhow, in our united twenty-seven million heads to discern the same; valour enough in our twenty-seven million hearts to dare and do the bidding thereof?

There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.

Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.

Some have argued that no one moment and/or process of textual formation should be presumed for any of these texts, and that they were constantly in a state of becoming, but the extant evidence does not support such a position.

birds are the only extant dinosaurs

I reckon that this one Duke of Weimar did more for the Culture of his Nation than all the English Dukes and Duces now extant, or that were extant since Henry the Eighth gave them the Church Lands to eat, have done for theirs![…]

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