choice
see also: Choice
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Choice
Proper noun
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see also: Choice
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English chois, from Old French chois, from choisir, possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre, from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽, from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-.
Nounchoice
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
- (uncountable) The power to choose.
- She didn't leave us much choice.
- 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.
- Anything that can be chosen.
- You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate
- (usually, with the) The best or most preferable part.
- (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
- (set theory) Ellipsis of axiom of choice
- (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
- French: choix
- German: Wahl
- Italian: scelta
- Portuguese: escolha
- Russian: вы́бор
- Spanish: selección, decisión, opción
From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis, from Old English ċīes, related to Old English ċēosan.
Adjectivechoice (comparative choicer, superlative choicest)
- Especially good or preferred.
- Synonyms: prime, prize, quality, select, choicy
- It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
- 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 33, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗, page 162 ↗:
- This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
- (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.
- 1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:
- Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach / Of ordinary men; a stately speech;
- 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.
- 1847 March 29, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC ↗:
- One day the cabin steward made me a present of some molasses, which I was so choice of that I kept it hid away in a tin can in the farthest corner of my bunk.
Choice
Proper noun
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