peer
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
Verb 3 meanings
To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
To make equal in rank.
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.
Noun 4 meanings
A look; a glance.
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
“a peer of the realm”
Etymology
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“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”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”).
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PEER at a glance
PEER has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (P 3 + E 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,625 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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