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COMPEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compeer mean?
• COMPEER (noun)
The noun COMPEER has 1 sense:
1. a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Familiarity information: COMPEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
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)
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