Etymology 1
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.
Pronunciation Verbchoose (chooses, present participle choosing; simple past chose, past participle chosen)
- 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.
- To elect.
- He was chosen as president in 1990.
- To decide to act in a certain way.
- I chose to walk to work today.
- To prefer; to wish; to desire.
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- The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
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Conjugation2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name):- Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.
Related terms TranslationsConjugation of chooseinfinitive (to) choose present tense past tense 1st-person singular choose chose, choosed* 2nd-person singular choose, choosest† chose, choosed*, chosest†, choosedst† 3rd-person singular chooses, chooseth† chose, choosed* plural choose subjunctive choose chose, choosed* imperative choose — participles choosing chosen, choosed*, chose** †Archaic or obsolete. * Nonstandard. ** Colloquial.
- French: choisir
- German: wählen, auswählen
- Italian: scegliere, selezionare
- Portuguese: escolher
- Russian: выбира́ть
- Spanish: escoger, elegir
- French: décider
- German: entscheiden
- Italian: decidere
- Portuguese: escolher, escolher
- Russian: реша́ть
- Spanish: escoger, elegir
- (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”).
Nounchoose (plural chooses)
- (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The act of choosing; selection.
- (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
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