Thesaurus: extant

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1. a. Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
2. a. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.
3. a. Publicly known; conspicuous.
4. adj. still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
5. 1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley. 2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor. 3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
6. j:100 a. still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost