extant

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɛkˈstænt/|/ˈɛk.stənt/    美 /ˈɛk.stənt/|/ɛkˈstænt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Still in existence; not having disappeared. not-comparable
    — extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
  2. Still alive; not extinct. not-comparable
    — birds are the only extant dinosaurs
  3. Standing out, or above the rest. not-comparable,obsolete
    — [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.

词汇关系

衍生词
nonextant then-extant
相关词
extance extancy

词源

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