peer

To peer is defined as to look closely or intently at something that may difficult to see.

(verb)

Peer is to wake in the night and try to see in the darkness.

The definition of a peer is an equal in age, skill or another category.

(noun)

An example of a peer is someone who graduated in the same year as a fellow student.

See peer in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person or thing of the same rank, value, quality, ability, etc.; equal; specif., an equal before the law
a noble; esp., a British duke, marquess, earl, viscount, or baron

Origin: ME peir < OFr per < L par, an equal: see par

transitive verb

Archaic to match or equal

intransitive verb

Origin: ? aphetic < appear

See peer in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb peered, peer·ing, peers

Origin:

Origin: Middle English piren (probably from Frisian piren)

Origin: and peren (short for aperen, to appear; see appear)

noun

A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age: children who are easily influenced by their peers.
a. A nobleman.
b. A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
Archaic A companion; a fellow: “To stray away into these forests drear,/Alone, without a peer” (John Keats).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French per, equal, peer

Origin: , from Latin pār; see perə-² in Indo-European roots

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