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emerging

adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ//
  • United States//ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ//

Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.

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.

Etymology

By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of emergepresent participle and gerund of emerge

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[…]

Forms

plural
emergings
comparative
more emerging
superlative
most emerging
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