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- DictionaryEx·tant/ˈekstənt/
adjective
- 1. (especially of a document) still in existence; surviving: "the original manuscript is no longer extant"
The meaning of EXTANT is currently or actually existing. How to use extant in a sentence.
EXTANT definition: 1. used to refer to something very old that is still existing: 2. used to refer to something very…. Learn more.
Extant definition: in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost. See examples of EXTANT used in a sentence.
EXTANT meaning: 1. used to refer to something very old that is still existing: 2. used to refer to something very…. Learn more.
Use the adjective extant to describe old things that are still around, like your extant diary from third grade or the only extant piece of pottery from certain craftspeople who lived hundreds of years ago.
extant. (ekstænt , ekstənt ) adjective. If something is extant, it is still in existence, in spite of being very old. [formal] Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant. The oldest extant document is dated 1492. Synonyms: in existence, existing, remaining, surviving More Synonyms of extant.
1. still in existence; surviving. 2. archaic standing out; protruding. [C16: from Latin exstāns standing out, from exstāre, from stāre to stand] 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)
