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extant

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"Still existing"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛk.stənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aenttxStarts with EEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Still existing or surviving.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
  • There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.
  • Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.

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