peers

Meaning of peers

verb, 3rd person present
  1. look with difficulty or concentration at someone or something.
    Faye peered at her with suspicion

late 16th century: perhaps a variant of dialect pire or perhaps partly from a shortening of appear.

plural noun
  1. a member of the nobility in Britain or Ireland, comprising the ranks of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
    hereditary peers could still dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords
  2. a person of the same age, status, or ability as another specified person.
    he has incurred much criticism from his academic peers
verb, 3rd person present
  1. make or become equal with.
    the Thames could not peer with the mill-streamlet close to my home
    of Homer it is said that none could ever peer him for poetry

Middle English: from Old French peer, from Latin par ‘equal’.

Information about peers

  • The singular form of peers is: peer.
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Hyphenation of peers

peers

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • peers is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

peers synonyms

Meaning look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light:

squint

Meaning look quickly and furtively at something, especially through a narrow opening:

peep

Meaning look quickly or furtively:

peek

Meaning inquire too closely into a person's private affairs:

pry

Meaning work for a government or other organization by secretly obtaining information about enemies or competitors:

spy

Meaning direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction:

look

Meaning stare openly in a stupid or rude manner:

gawp

Meaning look steadily and intently, especially in admiration, surprise, or thought:

gaze

Meaning look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open:

stare

Meaning be or become wide open:

gape

Meaning examine or inspect closely and thoroughly:

scrutinize

Meaning look closely at or examine (someone or something):

survey

Meaning inspect (someone or something) thoroughly in order to determine their nature or condition:

examine

Meaning look at or inspect:

view

Meaning look at closely or with interest:

eye

Meaning look at all parts of (something) carefully in order to detect some feature:

scan

Meaning notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant:

observe

Meaning devote time and attention to gaining knowledge of (an academic subject), especially by means of books:

study

Meaning consider or think of in a specified way:

regard

Meaning look thoughtfully for a long time at:

contemplate

Meaning investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs:

snoop

Meaning cry; weep:

squinny

Meaning a member of the aristocracy:

aristocrat

Meaning a man of noble rank or high office; a nobleman:

lord

Meaning a polite or formal way of referring to a woman:

lady

Meaning a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right:

peeress

Meaning (especially in former times) a person of noble rank or birth:

noble

Meaning a man who belongs by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy; a peer:

nobleman

Meaning a woman who belongs by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy; a peeress:

noblewoman

Meaning an aristocrat or nobleman:

patrician

Meaning a person of wealth or high social position:

nob

Meaning an upper-class person:

rah

Meaning a person or thing that is the same as another in status or quality:

equal

Meaning a person in the same position, involved in the same activity, or otherwise associated with another:

fellow

Meaning a person or thing that is equal to another in quality or strength:

match

Meaning a thing or things of the same kind (often used to express surprise or for emphasis):

like

Meaning a person or thing that equals another in quality:

rival

Meaning a person of equal rank, status, or ability:

compeer

Meaning a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another:

contemporary

Meaning a person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary:

coeval

Anagrams of peers

Peres, Perse, perse, prees, Speer, speer, Spree, spree

Words that rhyme with peers

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