adj Still existing; not lost or destroyed.
- Only three copies of the ancient map are still extant.
- Few letters from that period remain extant, so historians study them carefully.
- The museum displays the oldest extant example of the printing press.
- Some have argued that no one moment and/or process of textual formation should be presumed for any of these texts, and that they were constantly in a state of becoming, but the extant evidence does not support such a position.
— Chaim Milikowsky, 7.6 Philological practices: Hebrew (2020)
- extant manuscripts of the Old Testament
adj Still living, as a species; not extinct.
- The lizard is one of the few extant species in this small region.
- Scientists compared extinct animals with their closest extant relatives.
- Several extant birds on the island are found nowhere else.
- birds are the only extant dinosaurs
