Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#COMPEERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#COMPEER comper, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#COMPEER comper, from Category:Requests for attention in Latin etymologies LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#COMPEER compater, compatrem. Doublet of compereCategory:English doublets#COMPEER as well as compadre and goombahCategory:English doublets#COMPEER. Influenced by folk-etymological analysis as com- +‎ peer.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɪə(ɹ)/, /kɒmˈpɪə(ɹ)/Category:English 2-syllable words#COMPEERCategory:English 2-syllable words#COMPEERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COMPEER
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)#COMPEERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)/2 syllables#COMPEER

Noun

compeer (plural compeers)Category:English lemmas#COMPEERCategory:English nouns#COMPEERCategory:English countable nouns#COMPEERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COMPEERCategory:Pages with entries#COMPEERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COMPEER

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COMPEER) The equal or peer of someone else; a close companion or associate.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.

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   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 155–156:

     She had fallen into the common error of supposing that the author must personify his works, and that his conversation must be copy and compeer of his writings.

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Verb

compeer (third-person singular simple present compeers, present participle compeering, simple past and past participle compeered)Category:English lemmas#COMPEERCategory:English verbs#COMPEERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COMPEERCategory:Pages with entries#COMPEERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COMPEER

1. To be equal with; to match.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.

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Anagrams

• Compere, compere, compère, precome