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Emerging

//ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.

    "America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short."

Adjective
  1. 1
    coming into existence wordnet
  2. 2
    coming to maturity wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Emergence.

    "We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of emerge form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.

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