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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Extant \Ex"tant\, a. [L. extans, -antis, or exstans -antis, p. pr of extare exstare to stand out or forth; ex out + stare to stand: cf F. extant. See {Stand}.] 1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. --Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. --Bentley. 2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. --Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. --I. Taylor. 3. Publicly known conspicuous. [Obs.] --B. Jonson From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: extant adj : still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd [ant: {extinct}]
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