• IPA: /tʃɔɪs/

choice

1. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

   Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

2. (uncountable) The power to choose.

   She didn't leave us much choice.

3. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

   The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

4. Anything that can be chosen.

   You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate

5. (usually, with the) The best or most preferable part.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Third”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:

     The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.

6. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1,

     We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.

7. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

• (selection or preference) option, possibility; see also Thesaurus:option
• (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection
• (definite: best or most preferable part) the cream
• (sufficient number to choose among) abundance, profusion; see also Thesaurus:cornucopia

• choose
• choosey
• chosen

• French: choix
• German: Wahl
• Italian: scelta
• Portuguese: escolha
• Russian: вы́бор
• Spanish: selección, decisión, opción

• French: choix
• German: Wahl
• Italian: scelta
• Portuguese: escolha
• Russian: вы́бор
• Spanish: elección

• French: choix
• German: Auswahl
• Portuguese: escolha
• Russian: вы́бор
• Spanish: opción

• French: morceau de choix
• Italian: ottimo, ottima

choice (comparative choicer, superlative choicest)

1. Especially good or preferred.

   It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.

2. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.

   Choice! I'm going to the movies.

3. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.
   • 1856, James Planché (tr.), Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy, The Princess Carpillon:

     Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.

• (especially good or preferred) prime, prize, quality, select, choicy

• French: de choix
• German: erlesen
• Italian: di prima scelta
• Portuguese: seleto
• Spanish: exquisito

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