peer
大学受験同僚・同輩（peer pressure）
意味
- (…を)じっと見つめる《+at(into, through)+名》
- 見えてくる,一部見える《+out》
- (地位・階級・年齢・販力などが)同等の人,同輩
- (英国の)貴族(英国以外の)貴族
- …と肩を並べる,に匹敵する
例文
He enjoys considerable standing among his peers.
彼は同輩に相当受けがよい。
They will be accepted by their peers in adulthood.
彼らは大人になってからの同輩に受け入れられるだろう。
He peered at the small print in a newspaper.
彼は新聞の小さな活字をじっとみた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear.