Dictionary Definition
peer
Noun
2 a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount
or baron) who is a member of the British peerage v : look
searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a
salesman was around"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Homophones
Verb
- To look at surreptitiously.
Translations
Noun
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
of equal level
noble
Dutch
Pronunciation
- /'peːr/
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
- to break wind, to
fart
- peerse
Conjugation
es-conj-eer pExtensive Definition
Peer may refer to:
- Peerage (disambiguation), (a member of) a system of honours or nobility in various countries
- Peer group, (a member of) a group of people of the same age, status, ability, etc.
- Peer-to-peer computer network, (a participant of), in which participants act as both client and server
- Peer, Belgium
- Peer Leadership Program, an organization that promotes team building and easing school transitions
- Public employees for environmental responsibility (PEER), an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
- A variant of the name Peter in Scandinavic languages.
- Peer Gynt, a play and character by Henrik Ibsen.
- Israeli professional tennis player Shahar Pe'er.
peer in German: Peer
peer in Dutch: Peer
peer in Polish:
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peer in Simple English: Peer
peer in Swedish: Peer
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Brahman, appear, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, associate, autopsy, baron, baroness, baronet, be curious, become
visible, bend the eyes, blue blood, bore, break through, burn with
curiosity, canvass,
check, check out, check
over, check up on, coequal, colleague, compeer, confrere, count, counterpart, countess, daimio, delve into, dig around
for, dig into, dig up, direct the eyes, ditto, duchess, duke, earl, emerge, equal, equipollent, equivalent, esquire, examine, explore, eye, fathom, fellow, gape, gaup, gawk, gentleman, give an
examination, glare,
gloat, go into, go over,
goggle, grand duke,
grandee, hidalgo, indagate, inquire, inspect, interrogate, investigate, lace-curtain,
lady, laird, landgrave, like, look, look at, look into, look
over, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, marchioness, margrave, marquis, match, mate, monitor, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, nose around for,
nose out, observe,
opposite number, optimate, overhaul, overlook, palsgrave, parallel, pass over, pass under
review, patrician,
peek, peep, peep out, peer at, peer into,
peruse, play peekaboo,
plumb, poke into, pore
over, postmortem,
probe, pry, pry into, query, question, quiz, review, rival, rubber, rubberneck, run over,
scan, scrutinize, search into,
seek, seigneur, seignior, set an examination,
show, sift, silk-stocking, size, size up, snoop, sound, sovereign, spy, squire, stare, study, survey, swell, take a peep, take stock of,
take the measure, thoroughbred, twin, upper-cruster, viscount, viscountess, waldgrave, want to
know