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COMPEER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

Synonyms:

compeer; equal; match; peer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("compeer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compeer"):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)

coeval; contemporary (a person of nearly the same age as another)

gangsta ((Black English) a member of a youth gang)

backup; backup man; fill-in; relief; reliever; stand-in; substitute (someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult))

replacement; successor (a person who follows next in order)

townsman (a person from the same town as yourself)

Holonyms ("compeer" is a member of...):

peer group (contemporaries of the same status)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb compeer

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