Word.ws English Dictionary

life peer

life peer noun: a member of the House of Lords, appointed for life, but whose position is not hereditary.

Noun

life peer (plural life peers)

  1. (UK) A member of the House of Lords, appointed for life, but whose position is not hereditary.
    • The Daily Mail carries quotes from the Ofcom boss and former Tory life peer, Lord Grade, calling for an inquiry into BBC bias claims.2025 November 9, Jamie Grierson, “BBC bias row: how a week of hostile headlines from rightwing media led to resignations”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of life peer

plurallife peers

Questions about life peer

What does life peer mean?
Life peer means a member of the House of Lords, appointed for life, but whose position is not hereditary.
What part of speech is life peer?
Life peer is a noun.
What is the plural of life peer?
The plural of life peer is life peers.

Words near life peer in the dictionary

  1. life or death
  2. life partner
  3. life partners
  4. life path
  5. life paths
  6. life peer
  7. life peers
  8. life plan
  9. life plans
  10. life plant
  11. life point

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: life peer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “life peer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/life_peer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.