peer

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A peer is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other high school students are your peers.

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To come in sight; to appear.

Noun
a person who is of equal standing with another in a group

Noun
a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

Verb
look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"

v. i.
To come in sight; to appear.

v. i.
To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

n.
One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

n.
A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

n.
A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

v. t.
To make equal in rank.

v. t.
To be, or to assume to be, equal.

Peer

Peer , v. i. [imp. & p.p Peered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Peering.] [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. para'8ctre to appear, L. parere. Cf. Appear.] 1. To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic]

So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

See how his gorget peers above his gown!

2. [Perh. a different word; cf. OE. piren, LG. piren. Cf. Pry to peep.] To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. Milton.

Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.

As if through a dungeon grate he peered.

Peer

Peer, n. [OE. per, OF. per, F. pair, fr. L. par equal. Cf. Apparel, Pair, Par, n., Umpire.] 1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

In song he never had his peer.

Shall they consort only with their peers?

2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

A noble peer of mickle trust and power.

House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords. See Parliament. -- Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.

Peer

Peer v. t. To make equal in rank. [R.] Heylin.

Peer

Peer v. t. To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]

To come in sight; to appear.

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

To make equal in rank.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

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Usage Examples

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.