Dictionary entry

Peeress

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪərɛs/

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪərɛs/

Myanmar Meaning

မှုးမတ်ကတော်။

Definition

peer 1 /pÇǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (usu pl ) (က) အဆင့္အတန္း၊ အရည္အခ်င္း တူသူ။ be judged by one's peers ❍ gain the respect of one's peers ❍ As a goal-scorer he has few peers. (ခ) သက္တူရြယ္တူ။ He doesn't spend enough time with his peers. ❍ be heavily influenced by one's peers at school. ၂။ ( fem peeress /'pÇeres/) (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) သူေကာင္းမ်ဳိးဝင္။ peers of the realm (ie those who may sit in the House of Lords). See also LIFE PEER ❏ peerage /'pÇǝrÇdʒ/ n ၁။ [Gp] သူေကာင္းစု။ elevate/raise sb to the peerage (ie to make them a peer or peeress). ၂။ [C] သူေကာင္းဘြဲ႕အမည္အရည္။ inherit a peerage. ❏ peer group n သက္တူတန္းတူအေဖာ္အသင္း။ mix with one's peer group ❍ peer-group pressure. ❏ peerless adj ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းေသာ။ သူမတူေအာင္ ေကာင္း ေသာ။ a peerless performance. peer 2 /pÇǝ(r)/ v ~ (at sth/sb) အားစိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ peer shortsightedly ❍ peer at sb over one's glasses ❍ peer into the mist/out of the window/over the wall/through a gap ❍ He went to the window and peered out. ❍ LOOK Compare PEEK, PEEP 1 ၁

Examples

  1. A child who is popular with her peers
  2. Few players have gained as much respect from their peers as Bobby Robson.
  3. As an actor she has few peers.