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Equal until the British crown decides one of you outranks the room.
means To peer is to look searchingly, especially with difficulty; as a noun, a peer is someone of equal standing — or, in Britain, a member of the nobility.
from Two different words wearing the same coat. The 'equal' peer comes from Latin 'par,' meaning equal — the same root behind 'parity' and 'par for the course' — which entered English through Old French 'per.' The verb 'to peer,' meaning to gaze narrowly, is a separate and murkier creature: possibly a shortened form of 'appear,' or related to dialectal 'pire' meaning to look closely. The two have nothing to do with each other except a spelling that fooled everyone into thinking they were kin.
- two meanings
- A noble title and a total equal collide here
- peer pressure
- Most influential before age 25, then quietly fades
- latin root
- From par, meaning equal, like par golf
- peer review
- Science's brutal gatekeeping by jealous strangers
- to peer
- Same word means squinting hard at something
peer gynt — henrik ibsen's 1867 play about a norwegian protagonist's life journey
peer pressure — social phenomenon studied since 1950s where adolescents conform to group behavior