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# cheater

«cheater» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who cheats: who breaks the rules secretly to win…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cheater, cheaters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cheater is a person who cheats: who breaks the rules secretly to win or to get something they should not have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#m1)

2) A cheater is also someone who is not faithful or honest with a partner or friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In games, sport and tests a cheater copies answers, peeks, changes the score or ignores the rules. In stories it marks an unfair character, and the reader expects them to be caught or to learn a lesson. In lessons on honesty it is the opposite of a fair player. Phrases: a sore loser and a cheater, call someone a cheater, cheaters never prosper.

### examples

- Nobody wanted to play cards with him because he was a cheater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x1)
- The cheater was sent off the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x2)
- «Cheaters never win,» said the coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x3)
- She was called a cheater after she looked at her neighbour's test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x4)
- Don't be a cheater, wait your turn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x5)
- The game kicked out the cheater who used a hack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x6)
- In the story, the cheater lost the race in the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/#x7)

### note

Countable: a cheater, two cheaters. Mostly American; British English often says «a cheat» (He is a cheat). The verb is «cheat» (cheat, cheats, cheated, cheating). Calling someone a cheater is a strong accusation, so be sure before you say it.

### In the corpora

- [The seven letters of TEACHER also make CHEATER and HECTARE, and shorter words such as cheat, reach, each and heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/14/)
- [Not every brilliant player is a cheater, though.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/16/)
- [Games have a report button for cheaters and smurfs, and reports are checked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cheater» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheater/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.