Word of the Day: January 23, 2025

What It Means

To come into view.

To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid.

To become known.

// The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.

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Emerge in Context

“The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.”

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Did You Know?

First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)