What is peer?

More definitions of "peer":

• (noun): A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage.

• (noun): A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
  Synonyms: equal, match, compeer

Famous quotes containing the word peer:

“I peer eagerly into every gap in a fence of a zipper.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“All nature is a temple where the alive
Pillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;
Man wanders in a forest of accords
That peer familiarly from each ogive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Research shows clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants’ fears and distress by soothing words and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child’s hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer’s high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!”
—Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)