PEER Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈpir

Definition of peer

as in nobleman

a man of high birth or social position claims to be related to an English peer

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as in equivalent

one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value a jury of one's peers

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verb

as in to gaze

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank

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Recent Examples of peer

Noun

In places such as Israel and apartheid-era South Africa, Pillay and peers took on some of the world’s most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations. — Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The sessions go deep each with an hour on stage; with their peers in attendance. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Verb

In the early 1900s, people promenading along Oxford Street could peer through big, street-level windows into a crop of new megastores. — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Trump and Xi also appeared to peer at the ballroom construction site from afar. — Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for peer

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Noun

Gunpowder, a miniseries from 2017, was set in 1603 with Harington playing Robert Catesby, a charismatic Catholic nobleman, who decides to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King inside.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
They are also called the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who removed them from the Acropolis in Athens in 1801 and sold them to the British government, which has housed them in the British Museum for nearly two centuries.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of nobleman

Noun

Set in a garden near the Bahnhofstrasse shopping drag (Zurich's equivalent of Fifth Avenue), the hotel looks right onto Lake Zurich and the Alps—but that's not the only nice view.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Cuts to pensions or benefits of China’s own state employees in the coming years might produce a modern equivalent.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of equivalent

Verb

Despite gazing at the ghostly presence in full, Bela’s parents don’t seem all that spooked, even when the young girl is tossed around like a rag doll during an anniversary gathering at their home.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
The rooms Each of Jumeirah Al Naseem's 430 rooms comes with a generous balcony or terrace gazing over the resort grounds, or up at the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of gaze

Noun

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the decidedly forgettable experience of falling for a phishing scam—or in this case, the simulation of one.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
The Lady Greyhounds are there as well, and Niamh Harrigan (Aisling Sharkey) challenges her teammates to split the G, which an older gentleman points out is a tradition that actually started in Britain, not Ireland.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of gentleman

Noun

During demonstrations, the researchers folded the material diagonally in opposite directions, and its digital counterpart followed the changing geometry.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
From 2021 through last season, the Knicks boasted an unfathomable 18-2 record against their Eastern Conference counterpart Washington Wizards.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of counterpart

Verb

Standing barefoot outside his home at 8th Street and Balboa Boulevard, holding a cup of coffee, Ross Stewart, 79, stared at the gray sky and at the berms.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
Even Albert Einstein famously sat in quiet rooms for hours staring at the ceiling, knowing his breakthroughs came from stillness, not the rush of the laboratory.

— Stephanie Kramer, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of stare

Verb

Closer still to the falls, the mist is heavy enough to drench the sightseers stopping to gawk at the spectacle from viewing points, or on slippery pathways between the various lookouts.

— Charukesi Ramadurai, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
Such an approach runs the risk of gawking at an unfamiliar people, their hegemonies and their ways of life, even with the best intentions.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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