Peter Definition

pētər
petered, peters
verb
petered, peters
To become gradually smaller, weaker, etc. and then cease or disappear.
Webster's New World
To diminish slowly and come to an end. Often used with out .
Their enthusiasm soon petered out.
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noun
peters
The penis.
Webster's New World
A masculine name: dim. Pete: equiv. L. Petrus, Fr. Pierre, It. Pietro, Sp. Pedro, Russ. Pyotr.
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(original name Simon) (died a.d. 64?); one of the twelve Apostles, a fisherman, to whom the Letters of Peter are ascribed: considered the first pope: his day is June 29
Webster's New World
Either of the two Letters of Peter.
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pronoun

(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.

Wiktionary
A male given name.
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The leading Apostle in the New Testament.

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(rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname.

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idiom
rob Peter to pay Paul
  • to pay a debt, obligation, etc. by creating or leaving unpaid another
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Origin of Peter

  • 1812, US miners' slang, Unknown. Various speculative etymologies have been suggested. One suggestion is that it comes from peter being an abbreviation of saltpeter, the key ingredient in gunpowder - when a mine was exhausted, it was “petered". Other derivations are from St. Peter (from sense of “rock"), or French péter (“to fart").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Petros), from πέτρος (petros, “stone, rock"), related to πέτρα (petra)

    From Wiktionary

  • US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-.

    From Wiktionary

  • From the name Peter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Peter Sentence Examples

  • He is not Peter Standish.

  • His glove was carried to his cousin Constance, wife of Peter of Aragon, the last of th great Norman-Swabian family.

  • Three separate capitals must be discriminated Pavia, the seat of the new Lombard kingdom; Ravenna, the garrison city of the Byzantine emperor; and Rome, the rallying point of the old nation, where the successor of St Peter was already beginning to assume that national protectorate which proved so influential in the future.

  • There it was agreed that France should supply 200,000 men and Piedmont 100,000 for the expulsion of the Austrians from Italy, that Piedmont should be expanded into a kingdom of North Italy, that central Italy should form a separate kingdom, on the throne of which the emperor contemplated placing one of his own relatives, and Naples another, possibly under Lucien Murat; the pope, while retaining only the Patrimony of St Peter (the Roman province), would be president of the Italian confederation.

  • Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae (1870, 1906), and Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (1883); also articles ROME, History (ancient) ad fin., section "Authorities," and Liv y, where the use made of the annalists by the historian is discussed; Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopddie, art.

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