cheater

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈtʃitɚ/ UK /ˈtʃiːtə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who acts dishonestly to gain an advantage

The cheater was expelled after copying answers during the exam.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who acts... fraud swindler trickster deceiver cheat confraudster

Word family

Related forms cheatescheat

Etymology

From cheat + -er. Cheat is an aphetic form of escheat ('reversion of property to the state'), from Old French escheoir ('to fall to one's lot'), from Late Latin *excadere, from Latin ex- + cadere ('to fall').

escheat Old French cadere Latin

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People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# cheater

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈtʃitɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtʃiːtə/

## Meanings
1. a person who acts dishonestly to gain an advantage

## Examples
- The cheater was expelled after copying answers during the exam.

## Synonyms
- fraud
- swindler
- trickster
- deceiver
- cheat
- con
- fraudster

## Related Forms
- cheat
- escheat

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: escheat
- Root: cadere

## Etymology
From cheat + -er. Cheat is an aphetic form of escheat ('reversion of property to the state'), from Old French escheoir ('to fall to one's lot'), from Late Latin *excadere, from Latin ex- + cadere ('to fall').

## AI Etymology
Cheater is from cheat + -er. Cheat is an aphetic form of escheat ('reversion of property to the state'), from Old French escheoir ('to fall to one's lot'), from Late Latin *excadere, from Latin ex- + cadere ('to fall'). Important recorded forms include escheat (Old French) and cadere (Latin). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers a person who acts dishonestly to gain an advantage. The wider family includes related words such as cheat and escheat.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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