单词	extant
释义	extantex‧tant /ɪkˈstænt/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINextant Origin: 1500-1600 Latin exstans, present participle of exstare ‘to stand out, exist’, from stare ‘to stand’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES This is one of the few extant manuscripts. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Finished, the 4-foot-high platform was three times larger than any stage extant in San Francisco. Fossils may tie them to the ungulates, but they seem quite distinct from any extant member of the group. However, the significance of this is questionable, as extant specimens all emanate from a single obverse die. In the few extant representations she is always shown as veiled. It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him. More amenable land had become available and J.H. Taylor was commissioned to design the course still largely extant. The last extant chancery bond is dated 21 June. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► still · Although his letters have not survived, a monastic Rule which he composed is still extant.· He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop.· The manor house and Ferriby Hall are still extant and remind one of the former grandeur of the High Street.· In the Middle Ages there were five churches around the square, but the only one still extant is St Nicholas.· I understand that all its minute books are still extant.· She founded a still extant Bridgettine order for whom she provided a Rule. still existing in spite of being very old:  Few of the manuscripts are still extant.
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