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Noun peer has 2 senses
  1. peer, equal, match, compeer - a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
    --1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --1 is a member of peer group
    --1 has particulars:
     associate; contemporary, coeval; stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in; successor, replacement; townsman
  2. peer - a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
    --2 is a kind of     Lord, noble, nobleman; peerage, baronage
    --2 has particulars:
     Baron; duke; Earl; Earl Marshal; life peer; Marquess; peer of the realm; Viscount; viscountess; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis
,Verb peer has 1 sense
  1. peer - look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"
    --1 is one way to     look
    Sample sentence:
    The ropes peer
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