From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- ("to taste, try").

Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese ("to choose"), Northern Frisian kese, Saterland Frisian kjoze, Western Frisian kieze, Dutch kiezen, French choisir, Low German kesen, nds-de kiesen, archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen, Danish kyse, Norwegian kjose, Swedish tjusa, Icelandic kjósa, Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽, Latin gustō, Ancient Greek γεύω, Sanskrit जोषति, Russian кушать.

• enPR: cho͞oz, IPA: /t͡ʃuːz/

choose (chooses, present participle choosing; simple past chose, past participle chosen)

1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

   I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

   • 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC ↗, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249 ↗:

     Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC ↗:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

2. To elect.

   He was chosen as president in 1990.

3. To decide to act in a certain way.

   I chose to walk to work today.

4. To prefer; to wish; to desire.
   • (Can we date this quote?), [Oliver Goldsmith], [Oliver Goldsmith]}

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     The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.

     title = The Vicar of Wakefield: […]volume = !(please specify |volume=I or II)location = Salisbury, Wiltshirepublisher = […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […]year = 1766page =pages =pageurl = https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-vicar-of-wakefield-_goldsmith-oliver_1766__1/page//mode/1upoclc = 21416084newversion =location2 =publisher2 =year2 =page2 =pages2 =pageurl2 =oclc2 =textparam = 4allowparams = year,volume,1,chapter,2,page,3,pageref,pages

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   • 2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.

• choice
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• French: choisir
• German: wählen, auswählen
• Italian: scegliere, selezionare
• Portuguese: escolher
• Russian: выбира́ть
• Spanish: escoger, elegir

• French: élire
• German: wählen
• Italian: eleggere
• Portuguese: escolher
• Russian: выбира́ть
• Spanish: elegir

• French: décider
• German: entscheiden
• Italian: decidere
• Portuguese: escolher, escolher
• Russian: реша́ть
• Spanish: escoger, elegir

1. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.

   The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is \tbinom nk or "n choose k".

From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of Middle English chois (“choice”).

choose (plural chooses)

1. (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The act of choosing; selection.
2. (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.