peer

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1. peer - Noun

2. peer - Verb

Meaning

To come in sight; to appear.

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. William Golding

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Daniel Defoe

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos. Timothy Leary

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. Pierre Trudeau

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. Hilary Duff

Each one with his peer. Portuguese Proverb

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