English Dictionary

extant

/ˈɛk.stənt/

adj

Still in existence; not having disappeared. / Still alive; not extinct. / (obsolete) Standing out, or above the rest.

There are only a few extant copies of the original manuscript.

意味（1）

Still in existence; not having disappeared.

extant manuscripts of the Old Testament

意味（2）

Still alive; not extinct.

extant birds

意味（3）

(obsolete) Standing out, or above the rest.

[W]hereas in ſmall fragments or plates, the Ice, though it ſink not to the bottom of the water, will oftentimes ſink so low in it, as ſcarce to leave any part evidently extant above the ſurface of the water, in vaſt quantities of Ice, that extancy is ſometimes ſo conſpicuous, that Navigators in their Voyages to Iſland, Greenland, and other frozen Regions, complain of meeting with lumps, or rather floating rocks of Ice, as high as their main Maſts.