Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person of equal status or rank; a peer.
- noun A comrade, companion, or associate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
compear . - To equal; match; be equal with.
- noun One who is the peer of another; one who has equal rank or standing in any respect; an equal, especially as a companion or associate.
- noun Synonyms See
associate , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.
- transitive verb rare To be equal with; to match.
- intransitive verb See
compear .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I discovered something about Patrick Keilty the compeer and (supposedly) comedian today.
Archive 2006-12-17 Newmania 2006
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I discovered something about Patrick Keilty the compeer and (supposedly) comedian today.
The Little Details Newmania 2006
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German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Be a worthy compeer of the divine spirits whom we have learned to love through you.
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Palamedes28 all his days on earth far outshone those of his own times in wisdom, and when slain unjustly, won from heaven a vengeance such as no other mortal man may boast of. 29 Yet died he not at their hands30 whom some suppose; else how could the one of them have been accounted all but best, and the other a compeer of the good?
On Hunting 2007
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It has none of the poetic flights of the French genius, but advances steadily, and gains more ground in the end than its sprightlier compeer.
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He had no satisfaction in any man other than that which he found when some event would show to him that this or that other compeer of his own had proved himself to be self-interested, false, or fraudulent.
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English writers are constantly cited as the fathers of our verse, the name of their great Scottish compeer is apt to be passed over in silence; but he is evidently worthy of being enrolled in that little constellation of remote but never-failing luminaries, who shine in the highest firmament of literature, and who, like morning stars, sang together at the bright dawning of British poesy.
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So Oldoway man has an in situ compeer from Kanjera to hold his hand!!
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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So Oldoway man has an in situ compeer from Kanjera to hold his hand!!
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
johnmperry commented on the word compeer
first definition is exactly the same as for peer
July 20, 2008