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chetah

chetah 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 chetah

pluralchetahs

Questions about chetah

What is chetah the archaic form of?
Chetah is the archaic form of cheetah.

Words near chetah in the dictionary

  1. Chesvan
  2. Cheswardine
  3. Cheswell
  4. Cheswick
  5. chet
  6. chetah
  7. chetahs
  8. chetak
  9. chetaks
  10. Chetan
  11. Chetana

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chetah (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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