Coeval vs. Peer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Coeval and Peer
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Coeval
Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era.
Peer
To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.
Coeval
One of the same era or period; a contemporary.
Peer
To be partially visible; show
The moon peered from behind dark clouds.
Coeval
Of the same age; contemporary.
Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.
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Peer
A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age
Children who are easily influenced by their peers.
Coeval
Something of the same era.
The telephone and television are coevals in that film.
Peer
A nobleman.
Coeval
Somebody of the same age.
Peer
A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.
Coeval
Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; - usually followed by with.
Silence! coeval with eternity!
Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade.
Peer
A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.
Coeval
One of the same age; a contemporary.
As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit.
Peer
(Archaic) A companion; a fellow
"To stray away into these forests drear, / Alone, without a peer" (John Keats).
Coeval
A person of nearly the same age as another
Peer
(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
Coeval
Of the same period
Peer
To come in sight; to appear.
Peer
To make equal in rank.
Peer
(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
Peer
A look; a glance.
Peer
Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
Peer
Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
Peer
A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
A peer of the realm
Peer
A comrade; a companion; an associate.
Peer
(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
Peer
To come in sight; to appear.
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.
See how his gorget peers above his gown!
Peer
To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.
As if through a dungeon grate he peered.
Peer
To make equal in rank.
Peer
To be, or to assume to be, equal.
Peer
One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer.
Shall they consort only with their peers?
Peer
A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass.
Peer
A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power.
Peer
A person who is of equal standing with another in a group
Peer
A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
Peer
Look searchingly;
We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around
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