peer | ||
1. | [ verb ] look searchingly | |
Examples: | "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around" |
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Related terms: | look | |
2. | [ noun ] a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | |
Synonyms: | equal compeer match | |
Related terms: | person associate successor contemporary stand-in townsman peer_group equal equal | |
3. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8895 | |
4. | [ noun ] (British) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | |
Related terms: | lord peerage duke earl peer_of_the_realm marquess Earl_Marshal life_peer baron viscount viscountess charles_cornwallis UK | |
Similar spelling: |
Peery per Peru Pero Peri Pere Pera pear Perry Perro Perri Perea peary peoria |