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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

extant
    adj 1: still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost;
           "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found
           among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd [ant:
           extinct, nonextant]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            That part of the teeth which is extant above the
            gums.                                 --Ray.
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            A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
                                                  --Bentley.
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   2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
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            Writings that were extant at that time. --Sir M.
                                                  Hale.
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            The extant portraits of this great man. --I. Taylor.
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   3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Thesaurus Results for extant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

actual, alive, around, as is, being, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, fresh, immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force, instant, latest, living, modern, new, on foot, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, running, subsistent, subsisting, that be, that is, topical, under the sun, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute

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