peer

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
2. (intransitive, 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

Translations

pair

camarade

nobile

aristokraat

turen

αριστοκράτησ

par

Aristokrat

نبيل

aristocrata

aristocrate

contemporain

aristócrata

aristocratico

aristokrat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɪə̯/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: piren

Cognate with English: blear

Inherited from Middle English: pere

In summary

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.