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Peer   /pɪr/   Listen
noun
Peer  n.  
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.


verb
Peer  v. t.  To make equal in rank. (R.)


Peer  v. t.  To be, or to assume to be, equal. (R.)


Peer  v. i.  (past & past part. peered; pres. part. peering)  
1.
To come in sight; to appear. (Poetic) "So honor peereth in the meanest habit." "See how his gorget peers above his gown!"
2.
To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. "Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads." "As if through a dungeon grate he peered."





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"Peer" Quotes from Famous Books



... devoted to the early culture of the nobility, and where the principal, the Reverend Doctor Coronet, was so extremely exclusive in his system that it was reported that he had once refused the son of an Irish peer. Miss Coronet fed her imagination with the hope of meeting her father's noble pupils in after-life, and in the meantime read ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli
... the government, in consideration of past services, in the year 1800, converted "the O'Kelly" into Viscount Ballindine, the family property consisted of the greater portion of the land lying between the villages of Dunmore and Ballindine. Their old residence, which the peer still kept up, was called Kelly's Court, and is situated in that corner of County Roscommnon which runs up between ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... got far more, if only he were gifted to peer into the future; but that is a privilege denied to men, even to artists. Soon, when he was calmer, and the embryo sketch had assumed its requisite color notes for subsequent elaboration, ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... even as a youth, he made the king's subjects fear him by his imperious manner. His appearance in the streets was the signal for everyone to run into his house, bar the doors, and peer nervously through the casements. He was a reckless rider, and woe betide the unfortunate persons who happened to be in his way. Sparing neither man, woman, nor child, he callously rode over them, or lashed out vindictively ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... as decidedly as ever, up the slope. On the hard, frozen crust, her feet made hardly a sound. Above the level top of the white hill, the peak that looked remote from Hudson's yard became immediate. It seemed to peer—to lean forward, bright as a silver helmet against the purple sky. Dickie could see that "the girl" walked with her head tilted back as though she were looking at the sky. Perhaps it was the sheer beauty of the winter night that had brought ...
— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt


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