extant
Use Extant in a sentence
stənt, ɪkˈstænt adjective
1.
in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost: There are only three extant copies of the document.
2.
Archaic. standing out; protruding.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | still in existence; surviving |
| 2. | archaic standing out; protruding |
| 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 & History
extant
1545, "standing out above a surface," from L. extantem, prp. of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" + stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" appeared in Eng. 1561.
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Example sentences
The lack of extant monuments from these years is one reason for this elision.
However, modern science does allow us to draw some perfectly reasonable conclusions about our extant theories of the universe.
Of course, the extant of that relationship is not yet known.
The first, the acts of which are extant under his name in the editions of the councils, is certainly genuine.
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