Synonyms of peers

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noun

plural of peer

1

as in noblemen

a man of high birth or social position

claims to be related to an English peer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• noblemen
• gentlemen
• grandees
• lords
• milords
• knights
• princes
• country gentlemen
• squires
• barons
• baronets
• chevaliers
• cavaliers
• princelings
• nabobs
• sheikhs
• dukes
• seigneurs
• earls
• esquires
• hidalgos
• dons
• masters
• viscounts
• counts
• seigniors
• nawabs
• marquesses
• margraves
• princelets
• lordships
• sires
• rajas
• marchesi

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• peasants
• peons
• commoners
• plebeians
• boors
• fellahin
• plebs
• proletarians
• churls
• toilers
• cottars

2

as in counterparts

one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value

a jury of one's peers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• counterparts
• colleagues
• equivalents
• partners
• fellows
• rivals
• equals
• competitors
• likes
• coordinates
• compeers
• companions
• parallels
• associates
• coequals
• matches
• mates
• analogues
• twins
• halves
• doubles
• copartners

peers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of peer

as in stares

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stares
• gazes
• gawks
• goggles
• glares
• gapes
• rubbernecks
• gawps
• eyes
• watches
• blinks
• gloats
• ogles
• glowers
• leers
• studies
• fixates
• stares down
• peruses
• pores (over)
• regards
• considers
• observes
• outfaces
• outstares

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• glances
• dips (into)
• glimpses
• scans
• peeks
• peeps
• winks (at)
• browses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of peers

Noun

Its main global peers in DRAM include Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Goli recalled that one woman said that his design wouldn’t help her, garnering agreement from her peers. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

But what really distances the sixth iteration of the company’s flagship earbuds from their peers is their stellar advanced noise-cancelling capabilities. — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026

Harper and his Angeleno peers show how noir in any setting can work in this century, a time of rampant corruption, outsize villains, and morality turned inside out. — Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

German men, however, fare slightly worse than their American and European peers. — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

While teenagers have always looked to older peers for inspiration, social media has accelerated and amplified this process. — Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 2 July 2026

Elle is a bright pink fish out of water, overlooked and made fun of by her intellectual peers in flannel shirts and dark sweaters, who see her as a ditzy airhead beneath them. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Where the vast majority of their Championship peers benefited from state-of-the-art facilities on one site, Parkinson’s squad had to change at the Racecourse every morning before driving the three or so miles to their Colliers Park training ground. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Verb

The striking image peers through the Milky Way at millions of multi-colored stars appearing against a backdrop of galaxies. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 July 2026

That's allowed Micron and peers SK Hynix and Samsung to hike prices. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 26 May 2026

Someone dressed in a big blue bear costume — an homage to the 40-foot ursine behemoth who peers into the Colorado Convention Center along 14th Street in downtown Denver — has already been getting a lot of attention from attendees, the party chair said. — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026

Reid Wiseman peers out the window of the Orion spacecraft. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, right, peers out of one of Orion's windows. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026

The Churchill Suite peers over the Ministry of Defence (where Henry VIII’s wine cellar still lurks) and was the locus of military strategising. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026

In this photo released by Precision Helicopters Ltd, Molly peers out of the door of a helicopter after her rescue from a waterfall on the Arahura River on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026

Hubble captures crisp, long-term visible-light views of Saturn's cloud bands and atmospheric changes, while the JWST peers deeper into the planet's atmosphere in infrared, revealing heat patterns and structures hidden beneath the upper cloud layers. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026