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- 1 A look; a glance.
"Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]"
- 2 Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
"In song he never had his peer."
- 3 Someone who pees, someone who urinates. informal
"As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?)."
- 4 a person who is of equal standing with another in a group wordnet
- 5 Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
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- 6 a nobleman or noblewoman who is a member of the British peerage wordnet
- 7 A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
"a peer of the realm"
- 8 A comrade; a companion; an associate.
"He all his Peeres in beautie did surpas,"
- 1 To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. intransitive
"[…] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;"
- 2 To make equal in rank.
"Being now Peered with the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Essex."
- 3 look searchingly wordnet
- 4 To come in sight; to appear. intransitive, obsolete
"And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit."
- 5 To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic. Internet
Etymology
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.
From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.
pee + -er
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