Definition of "peer" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

   • As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d With broad and burning face.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.

noun

1. A look; a glance.

noun

1. Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

2. Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

3. 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

4. A comrade; a companion; an associate.

verb

1. To make equal in rank.

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.

noun

1. (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.