peer

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɪə̯/, [pʰɪə̯]
• (US) IPA: /pɪɹ/, pi(ə)ɹ, [pʰi(ə)ɹ]

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
• Homophone: pier

Etymology 1

From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian piren (“to look”), Low German piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”).

Verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

Translations

to look with difficulty or as if searching

• Finnish: tiirailla (fi), tähyillä (fi)
• French: scruter du regard
• German: spähen (de)
• Italian: scrutare (it), sbirciare (it)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kikke (nb)

• Russian: вглядываться (ru) (vgljádyvatʹsja) impf.
• Swedish: kika (sv)

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin par.

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level equal (to that of something else).
   1. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
2. A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

Translations

someone or something of equal level

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同輩 (cmn), 同辈 (cmn) (tóngbèi), (age-mate) 同齡人 (cmn), 同龄人 (cmn) (tónglíngrén)

• Dutch: gelijke (nl) m and f
• Finnish: vertainen (fi)
• French: pair (fr) m, pareil (fr) m (pareille (fr) f), semblable (fr)
• German: (age mate) Gleichaltriger (de), Gleichaltrige (de) f, Gleichaltrige (de) n; Ebenbürtiger (de), Beaufsichtigender (de)
• Irish: piara (ga) m
• Italian: pari (it), uguale (it), persona di pari condizione sociale (it)
• Japanese: 同輩 (ja) (どうはい, dōhai), ピア (ja) (pia), (age-mate) 同年配の人 (ja) (どうねんぱいひと, dōnenpai no hito)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jevnaldrende (nb) m (age-mate, mostly used as an adjective)

• Portuguese: par (pt) m
• Russian: ровня (ru) (róvnja) m and f, (age-mate) ровесник (ru) (rovésnik) m, ровесница (ru) (rovésnica) f, сверстник (ru) (svérstnik) m, сверстница (ru) (svérstnica) f
• Scottish Gaelic: leithid (gd) f
• Spanish: par (es) m
• Swedish: like (sv) c, jämlike (sv) c, gelike (sv) c
• Turkish: akran (tr), yaşıt (tr), emsâl (tr), lord (tr), asilzâde (tr), taydaş (tr)
• ǃXóõ: ǃnáã

noble

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貴族 (cmn), 贵族 (cmn) (guìzú)

• Dutch: edelman (nl) m, edele (nl) m
• Finnish: pääri (fi)
• French: pair (fr) m, noble (fr) m and f
• German: Edelmann (de) m, Adeliger (de) m, Edelfrau (de) f, Adelige (de) f
• Greek: ευγενής (el) (evgenís) m
• Hungarian: nemes (hu)

• Italian: pari (it), nobile (it)
• Japanese: 貴族 (ja) (きぞく, kizoku), 華族 (ja) (かぞく, kazoku)
• Portuguese: par (pt) m
• Russian: пэр (ru) (per) m (UK), дворянин (ru) (dvorjanín) m, дворянка (ru) (dvorjánka) f
• Spanish: par (es) m
• Swedish: pär (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Ido : pero
• Catalan: igual m

Verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

1. To make equal in rank.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Heylin to this entry?)

2. (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

Derived terms

• peer-to-peer

Related terms

• peer assessment
• peer review, peer reviewed
• peer pressure
• peerless
• the Peers

Etymology 3

pee +‎ -er

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
   • 1999 August 22, “Re: Swimming after eating”, alt.folklore.urban, Usenet:

     As was the caveat about peeing in a pool. Of course, peeing in a pool wasn't dangerous to the person ... If you peed in a pool, and you were carrying the polio virus, presumably *other* people were put at risk, not the peer (pee-er?).

   • 2000 August 29, “Re: 32 month old urinating in his room! HELP!”, alt.parenting.solutions, Usenet:

     SOunds like you've already broken him quite well, if he's peeing when disciplined. Pretty sad. He's not a dog, not that treating a dog like this is any better either. You've turned your child into a submissive peer.

   • 2003 October 11, “Re: do female's "mark" their territory?”, rec.pets.dogs.behavior, Usenet:

     Submissive peeing, on the other hand, IS related to anxiety. But submissive peeing is not marking. A submissive peer is generally a very submissive dog.

Anagrams

• pere, père

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːr

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• IPA: [pɪːr]

Noun

peer f (plural peren, diminutive peertje)

1. pear
2. light bulb

Anagrams

• reep

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Scots

Noun

peer (plural peers)

1. A pear.

Verb

tae peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peerin, simple past peert, past participle peert)

1. To peer.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pēdere, present active infinitive of pēdō

Verb

peer (first-person singular present peo, first-person singular preterite peí, past participle peído)

1. (archaic, vulgar) to break wind, to fart

Conjugation

    Conjugation of peer (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

Rule: i becomes y before o or e;

Verb is conjugated like 'leer'.

infinitive			peer
gerund			peyendo
past participle			peído
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	peo	pees	pee	peemos	peéis	peen
	imperfect	peía	peías	peía	peíamos	peíais	peían
	preterite	peí	peíste	peyó	peímos	peísteis	peyeron
	future	peeré	peerás	peerá	peeremos	peeréis	peerán
	conditional	peería	peerías	peería	peeríamos	peeríais	peerían
subjunctive		yo	tú	él/ella usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pea	peas	pea	peamos	peáis	pean
	imperfect (ra)	peyera	peyeras	peyera	peyéramos	peyerais	peyeran
	imperfect (se)	peyese	peyeses	peyese	peyésemos	peyeseis	peyesen
	future	peyere	peyeres	peyere	peyéremos	peyereis	peyeren
imperative		—	tú	usted	nosotros	vosotros	ustedes
	affirmative		pee	pea	peamos	peed	pean
	negative		no peas	no pea	no peamos	no peáis	no pean

Other verbs with this conjugation:

[+] Spanish verbs ending in -er (conjugation -eer)

Related terms

• peerse
• pedo
• pedorrear