emerging

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
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/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/ · /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/

Definition of emerging

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of emerge

noun

  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[…]”

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Etymology

By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.

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