Peer may refer to:
- People who are equal in such respects as age, education or social class etc., as in peer group
- A member of the peerage, a system of honours or nobility in various countries
- A variant of Peter (name) in Scandinavian languages and Dutch
- Partnership for European Environmental Research, a network of seven European environmental research centres
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
- Partnership for Economics Education and Research
- Peer, Belgium
- Peer Gynt, a play; and character by Henrik Ibsen
- Peer Leadership Program, an organization that promotes team building and easing school transitions
- Peer-to-peer computer network, (a participant of), in which participants act as both client and server
- a network entity with which one performs peering operations
- Shahar Pe'er, an Israeli professional tennis player
Famous quotes containing the word peer:
“We often overestimate the influence of a peer group on our teenager. While the peer group is most influential in matters of taste and preference, we parents are most influential in more abiding matters of standards, beliefs, and values.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“The Peer now spreads the glitt’ring Forfex wide,
T’inclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“All nature is a temple where the alive
Pillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;
Man wanders in a forest of accords
That peer familiarly from each ogive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)