English

Adjective

emerging ‎(comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)

1. Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, 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

• emerging market

Translations

Verb

emerging

1. present participle of emerge

Noun

emerging ‎(plural emergings)

1. 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 […]