Word of the Day for Sunday, August 5, 2012

compeer \kuhm-PEER\, noun:
1. Close friend; comrade.
2. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
verb:
1. Archaic. To be the equal of; match.

Whoever eats them outlasts heaven and earth, and is the compeer of sun and moon.
-- Cheng'en Wu, "Monkey"

Aren't you pleased with him, and didn't he arrange things well, eh, my good compeer Lenet?
-- Alexandre Dumas, "The Women's War"

Compeer comes from the Latin word parem which meant "equal." The prefix com- means "with, together or in association."

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