Peer

Quick meaning: Peer is a verb meaning (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face.

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

[…] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;

I, I, let you alone, cunning Artificer! / See, hovv his gorget peeres aboue his govvne; / To tell the people, in vvhat danger he vvas.

Word Forms

• peers
• peering
• peered

Synonyms for peer

Depending on context, synonyms include compeer, match, equal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include compeer, equal, match, gaze, rival, through.

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