Meanings
comparative more emerging · superlative most emerging
- 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.
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of emerge
plural emergings
- 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[…]
1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan emergent
- emergentbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Chinese Mandarin 新出現 /新出现, 新興 /新兴
- 新出現 /新出现 (xīn chūxiàn)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- 新興 /新兴 (xīnxīng)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Dutch (naar) boven komen, naar buiten komen
- (naar) boven komenbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- naar buiten komenbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- zich vertonenbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- zich voordoenbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- blijkenbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Finnish nouseva, kasvava
- nousevabecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- kasvavabecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- nuoribecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- orastavabecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
French émergent
- émergentbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
German entstehend
- entstehendbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Hungarian feltörekvő, kialakuló
- feltörekvőbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- kialakulóbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- kibontakozóbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- bontakozóbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- fejlődőbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- emergensbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- felmerülőbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- felbukkanóbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- megjelenőbecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Italian emergente
- emergentebecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Japanese 発展途上の, 新興の
- 発展途上の (hatten tojō no)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- 新興の (shinkō no)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Russian развива́ющийся, возника́ющий
- развива́ющийся (razvivájuščijsja)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- возника́ющий (voznikájuščij)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- восходя́щий (vosxodjáščij)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
- расту́щий (rastúščij)becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Spanish emergente
- emergentebecoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
Cite this entry
emerging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emerging
“emerging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emerging. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emerging,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emerging.
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