Compeer vs Ally - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else
* Milton
To be equal with; to match.
* Shakespeare
To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
* (rfdate) :
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
* (rfdate) :
* (rfdate) :
One united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
* (rfdate) :
Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
* (rfdate) Buckle:
Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
(taxonomy) A closely related species, usually within the same family.
(obsolete) A relative; a kinsman.
(a glass marble or taw)
Compeer is a related term of ally.
As a noun compeer
is (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else.As a verb compeer
is to be equal with; to match.As a proper noun ally is
a diminutive of the female given names alison, alice and alexandra.compeer
English
Noun
(en noun)- And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer .
Verb
(en verb)- In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.
Anagrams
*ally
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alien, (etyl) alier (Modern French allier), from (etyl) . Compare alligate, allay, alloy and ligament.Verb
(en-verb)- O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied .
- These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied .
- The virtue nearest to our vice allied .
Usage notes
* Generally used in the passive form or reflexively. * Often followed by to'' or ''with .Synonyms
* make common causeNoun
(allies)- the English soldiers and their French allies
- Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
- Gruiformes — cranes and allies
- (Shakespeare)