extant

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/ˈɛk.stənt/

adjective

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01
adjective
Still existing, especially from an earlier time.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Standing out, or above the rest.

Examples

But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name.
The yellow-eyed penguin is the sole extant species in the genus Megadyptes.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Still alive; not extinct.
Still in existence; not having disappeared.

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birds are the only extant dinosaurs
extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.

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Only a few blank manuscripts survive from that era.

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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[…]
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
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?
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem)
There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.
1948 May and June, J. Macartney Robbins, “A Railway Tour of Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 150
Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75
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.
2020, Chaim Milikowsky, “7.6 Philological practices: Hebrew”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 494

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Origin

adjective

First attested in 1545, from Latin extantem, extāns, present participle of extō (“to stand out, exist, be extant”), from ex- (“out”) + stō (“stand”).

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Only a few blank— manuscripts survive from that era.

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adjective

Only a few blank manuscripts survive from that era.