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cheeta

cheeta is the archaic form of cheetah.

Meaning of cheetah

Noun

cheetah (plural cheetahs)

  1. A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.

Forms of cheeta

pluralcheetas

Questions about cheeta

What is cheeta the archaic form of?
Cheeta is the archaic form of cheetah.

Words near cheeta in the dictionary

  1. cheesy puffs
  2. cheesylicious
  3. cheesymite
  4. cheesymite scroll
  5. cheesymite scrolls
  6. cheeta
  7. cheetah
  8. cheetahlike
  9. cheetahs
  10. cheetal
  11. cheetals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheeta (page history and authors); cheetah (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.

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