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extant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛk.stənt/ (UK)
  • /ɛkˈstænt/ (US)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɛk.stənt/ (US)
  • /ɛkˈstænt/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Still in existence; not having disappeared.
    • extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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):
    • 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:
    • 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:
  2. (not-comparable) Still alive; not extinct.
    • 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![…] 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Standing out, or above the rest.
    • [W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts. 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title IX. Experiments in Consort, Touching the Bubbles from which the Levity of Ice is Supposed to Proceed.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 95:

Antonyms

inextant · extinct

Deriveds

nonextant · then-extant

Relateds

extance · extancy

Synonyms

living · surviving · existent · vital · extant · undeceased · above ground · vital · living · kicking · livesome · animated · existent · existing · quick · live · alive and kicking · animate · still with us · extant · alive · lively · vitalic · alive and kicking · essential · existing · alive and well

Translations (74)

ca viu (still alive; not extinct) · ru вы́живший (still alive; not extinct) · es extante (still in existence) · cmn 现存 (still alive; not extinct) · pl trwający (still in existence) · nl existent (still in existence) · nn nolevande (still in existence) · et ekisteeriv (still in existence) · hu fennálló (still in existence) · sh postojeći (still in existence) · da nulevende (still in existence) · es existente (still alive; not extinct) · de verbleibend (still alive; not extinct) · hu meglévő (still in existence) · ms ekstan (still in existence) · ms masih hidup (still alive; not extinct) · hu létező (still alive; not extinct) · ca existent (still in existence) · de überlebend (still alive; not extinct) · ms masih wujud (still in existence) · bg наличен (still in existence) · nn nålevande (still in existence) · nb gjenværende (still alive; not extinct) · sv kvarvarande (still in existence) · cmn 現存 /现存 (still in existence) · hi मौजुद (still in existence) · ca actual (still alive; not extinct) · el σωζόμενος (still in existence) · ar موجود (still in existence) · pt extante (still alive; not extinct) · ca existent (still alive; not extinct) · ja 現存する (still alive; not extinct) · pt existente (still in existence) · fi olemassa oleva (still in existence) · ru сохрани́вшийся (still alive; not extinct) · el αρτίγονος (still in existence) · eo daŭras ĝis nuntage (still in existence) · nb gjenlevende (still alive; not extinct) · de vorhanden (still in existence) · nb gjenstående (still in existence) · pl zachowany (still in existence) · ru существу́ющий (still in existence) · nb nålevende (still in existence) · es actual (still alive; not extinct) · sh постојећи (still in existence) · pt vivente (still alive; not extinct) · ru сохрани́вшийся (still in existence) · bg съществуващ (still in existence) · cs dochovalý (still in existence) · cmn 現存的 /现存的 (still in existence) · ja 現存する (still in existence) · ja 既存の (still in existence) · pt vivente (still in existence) · ro existent (still in existence) · sv nulevande (still in existence) · es existente (still in existence) · de bestehend (still in existence) · cs žijící (still alive; not extinct) · fr existant (still in existence) · sv existerande (still in existence) · pl istniejący (still alive; not extinct) · cs dochovaný (still in existence) · eo dauxra (gxis nuntempe) (still in existence) · sv bevarad (still in existence) · el υπάρχων (still in existence) · eo nemalaperi (still in existence) · hu létező (still in existence) · fi elävä (still alive; not extinct) · pt remanescente (still in existence) · pl istniejący (still in existence) · it esistente (still in existence) · cs existující (still in existence) · de lebend (still alive; not extinct) · de existent (still in existence)