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Choice

//t͡ʃɔɪs// adj, intj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Especially good or preferred.

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

  2. 2
    Careful in choosing; discriminating. obsolete

    "that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of superior grade wordnet
  2. 2
    appealing to refined taste wordnet
Intj
  1. 1
    Cool; excellent. New-Zealand, slang

    ""I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    Acronym of Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

    "This provision permits employees enrolled in a CHOICE arrangement to use a salary reduction to pay for health plan premiums purchased through an Exchange."

  3. 3
    the act of choosing or selecting wordnet
  4. 4
    The power to choose. uncountable

    "She didn't leave us much choice."

  5. 5
    the person or thing chosen or selected wordnet
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  1. 6
    One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. countable, uncountable

    "The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert."

  2. 7
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen wordnet
  3. 8
    Anything that can be chosen. countable, uncountable

    "You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate."

  4. 9
    The best or most preferable part. countable, uncountable, usually

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

  5. 10
    Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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

  6. 11
    A sufficient number to choose among. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights"

  7. 12
    Ellipsis of axiom of choice. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

    "5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics (without choice) by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.

Etymology 2

From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).

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