From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emerge \E*merge"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Emerged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emerging}.] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See {Merge}.] To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. ''Thetis . . . emerging from the deep.'' --Dryden.
Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: coming into view; "as newly emerging emotions and ideas well up in him"
2: coming into existence; "a nascent republic" [syn: {emergent}, {nascent}]
3: coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: {rising}]
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