cheat

English Online Dictionary. What means cheat‎? What does cheat mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English acheten, variant of escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.

Verb

cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

   Synonym: break the rules

2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.

   Synonym: step out on
3. (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.

4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

   Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt
5. (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

Noun

cheat (plural cheats)

1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

   Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
2. Someone who cheats.

   Synonym: (informal) cheater
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

   Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it

5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: cheat
• → French: cheat
• → German: Cheat

Translations

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English chet (“low-quality bread”), of unknown origin; compare manchet.

Noun

cheat (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

Translations

Further reading

• cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cheat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃiːt/
• Hyphenation: cheat

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat (unfair advantage in a computer game)

Further reading

• “cheat” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃit/

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• xite, xit

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cheat.

Pronunciation

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat (hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game)

   Synonyms: batota, trapaça, macete, hack

Derived terms