emerging
English
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editemerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)
- Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- 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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
|
Verb
editemerging
- present participle and gerund of emerge
Noun
editemerging (plural emergings)
- Emergence.
- 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
- 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 […]