peer

Meaning

Verb

1. To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
2. (obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.

Noun

A look; a glance.

Noun

1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
2. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
3. A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
4. A comrade; a companion; an associate.

Noun

Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

Synonyms

equal

agemate

noble

aristocrat

nobleman

patrician

wellborn

gentleman

🤵‍♂️

blue blood

look

contemporary

match

age-mate

fellow

peep

compeer

colleague

comrade

peek

gaze

stare

generation

friend

baron

like

scrutinize

lord

equivalent

peer group

pry

mate

🧉

look attentively

appear

near age mate

rank with

same level

fasten one’s eyes/gaze

of the same age

adduce

adversary

alike

allege

aristocracy

associate

behold

coequal

come into sight

come up

co-worker

duke

examine

eye

👁️

glance

goggle

nobility

observe

opponent

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

propound

put up

quiz

see

👀

seem

shew

show

similar

spy

tantamount

watch

⌚

gawp

person of the same age

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɪə̯/

Etymology

From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or 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”), which could all be related to the root of English blear. Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.