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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : peer |
| Phonetic Transcription : pɪər |
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Définition of peers
Origin :- c.1300, "an equal in rank or status" (early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French peir, Old French per (10c.), from Latin par "equal" (see par (n.)). Sense of "a noble" (late 14c.) is from Charlemagne's Twelve Peers in the old romances, who, like the Arthurian knights of the Round Table, originally were so called because all were equal. Sociological sense of "one of the same age group or social set" is from 1944. Peer review attested by 1970. Peer pressure is first recorded 1971.
- noun person who is another's equal
- verb appear briefly
- verb scan, scrutinize
- Peers, Commons, and visitors filled the floor and galleries.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- If the nation was determined it would not be baffled by the Peers.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- Tories and Peers especially were enraged, and regarded themselves as baffled.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- Is rhyme unnatural from the lips of their peers and paladins?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
- Your peers will probably be of the opinion that you display a commendable prudence.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- They 'd be cabinet ministers, peers, ambassadors, colonial governors.
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- Three days after this the queen herself was brought to trial before the peers.
- Extract from : « Queen Elizabeth » by Jacob Abbott
- The number of peers of the realm in England at this time was fifty-three.
- Extract from : « Queen Elizabeth » by Jacob Abbott
- Great injustice is done us in the fact that we are not tried by a jury of our peers.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- Why, he 's the patriarch of the peers, and she 's twenty-four!
- Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
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