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extant
/ˈɛk.stənt/
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What does extant mean?
adjective
- Still in existence; not having disappeared.
- Still alive; not extinct.
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adjective
- (obsolete) Standing out, or above the rest.
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IPA pronunciation
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“All the valuable books then extant in all the vernacular dialects of Europe would hardly have filled a single shelf”—imagine it!
I was fortunate in being able to avail myself also of fragments of Midrashim of which only manuscript copies are extant.
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We have yet extant his funeral oration upon the death of his son, who died consul, which he recited before the people.
The remains at Avebury are among the most remarkable prehistoric monuments still extant, and evidently originally formed part of a most important group.
In estimating his position there is the great difficulty referred to by Sudhoff in determining which of the extant treatises are genuine.