Usually means: Equal in status or ability.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word peer:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. peer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peer: Merriam-Webster
  3. peer, peer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peer, peer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pe'er, Peer, peer: Wordnik
  8. peer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. peer: Wiktionary
  10. peer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. PEER: Dictionary.com
  14. peer (n.), peer (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. peer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pe'er, Peer (Networking), Peer (disambiguation), Peer (networking), Peer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Peer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. peer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. peer: Rhymezone
  20. peer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. peer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. peer: FreeDictionary.org
  23. peer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. peer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. peer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. peer: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Peer (disambiguation), peer: Legal dictionary
  5. Peer (Networking): Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. peer: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Peer (Networking), Peer (disambiguation), peer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Peer (disambiguation), peer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  5. PEER: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. peer: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. peer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Peer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See peered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
noun:  A look; a glance.
noun:  Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
noun:  Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
noun:  A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
noun:  A comrade; a companion; an associate.
verb:  To make equal in rank.
verb:  (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:  (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

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