Peer definition
Children who are easily influenced by their peers.
The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
Peer is to wake in the night and try to see in the darkness.
An example of a peer is someone who graduated in the same year as a fellow student.
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A peer of the realm.
A professor's academic peers.
- any of the British peers entitled to a seat in the House of Lords
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of peer
- Middle English piren (probably from Frisian piren) peren (short for aperen to appear appear)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old French per equal, peer from Latin pār perə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian piren (“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”).
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