transcription, транскрипция: [ pɪə(r) ]
( peers, peering, peered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly.
I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all...
He watched the Customs official peer into the driver’s window.
VERB : V prep , V prep
2.
In Britain, a peer is a member of the nobility who has or had the right to vote in the House of Lords.
Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981.
N-COUNT
3.
Your peers are the people who are the same age as you or who have the same status as you.
His engaging personality made him popular with his peers.
N-COUNT : usu pl , poss N