My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.
Source: tatoeba (1932)
Selection
//səˈlɛkʃən//
Synonyms for "selection" (118 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (59)
Related word relations
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More general
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Synonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
derived
111 entriesShowing 16 of 111 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
142 translations across 42 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- ἐκλογή noun (process or act of selecting)
- ἐκλογή noun (something selected)
- ἐκλογή noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Armenian
4 entries- ընտրություն noun (process or act of selecting)
- ընտրություն noun (something selected)
- ընտրում noun (process or act of selecting)
- սելեկցիա noun (process or act of selecting)
Basque
3 entries- aukera noun (something selected)
- aukera noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- aukeraketa noun (process or act of selecting)
Belarusian
3 entries- адбо́р noun (process or act of selecting)
- вы́бар noun (process or act of selecting)
- селе́кцыя noun (process or act of selecting)
Bengali
1 entries- ইন্তেখাব noun (process or act of selecting)
Bulgarian
4 entries- избор noun (process or act of selecting)
- избор noun (something selected)
- подбор noun (process or act of selecting)
- подборка noun (something selected)
Catalan
1 entries- selecció noun (process or act of selecting)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 選擇 /选择 noun (process or act of selecting)
Czech
1 entries- výběr noun (process or act of selecting)
Danish
2 entries- selektion noun (process or act of selecting)
- valg noun (process or act of selecting)
Finnish
4 entries- tarjooma noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- valikoima noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- valinta noun (process or act of selecting)
- valinta noun (something selected)
French
2 entries- sélection noun (process or act of selecting)
- sélection noun (something selected)
Galician
4 entries- escolla noun (process or act of selecting)
- escolla noun (something selected)
- escolleita noun (process or act of selecting)
- escolma noun (process or act of selecting)
German
4 entries- Anwahl noun (process or act of selecting)
- Aufruf noun (process or act of selecting)
- Auslese noun (something selected)
- Auslese noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Hindi
4 entries- चयन noun (something selected)
- चयन करना noun (process or act of selecting)
- चयनित noun (something selected)
- चुनना noun (process or act of selecting)
Hungarian
4 entries- döntés noun (something selected)
- kiválasztás noun (process or act of selecting)
- kiválasztódás noun (biology: natural selection)
- kiválogatás noun (process or act of selecting)
Irish
2 entries- rogha noun (process or act of selecting)
- rogha noun (something selected)
Italian
1 entries- selezione noun (process or act of selecting)
Japanese
1 entries- 選択 noun (process or act of selecting)
Korean
1 entries- 선택 noun (process or act of selecting)
Latin
1 entries- sēlēctiō noun (process or act of selecting)
Malay
1 entries- pemilihan noun (process or act of selecting)
Māori
4 entries- kōwhitinga noun (something selected)
- tīpakonga noun (something selected)
- tīpakonga noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- whiringa noun (something selected)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- seleksjon noun (process or act of selecting)
- utvalg noun (process or act of selecting)
- utvalg noun (something selected)
- utvalg noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- seleksjon noun (process or act of selecting)
- utval noun (process or act of selecting)
- utval noun (something selected)
- utval noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اختیار noun (process or act of selecting)
Persian
4 entries- انتخاب noun (process or act of selecting)
- برگزیده noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- گزینش noun (process or act of selecting)
- گزینه noun (something selected)
Polish
1 entries- selekcja noun (process or act of selecting)
Portuguese
3 entries- seleção noun (process or act of selecting)
- seleção noun (something selected)
- seleção noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Romanian
4 entries- alegere noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- culegere noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- selectare noun (process or act of selecting)
- selecție noun (process or act of selecting)
Russian
4 entries- вы́бор noun (process or act of selecting)
- вы́бор noun (something selected)
- вы́борка noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- отбо́р noun (process or act of selecting)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- taghadh noun (process or act of selecting)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- izbor noun (something selected)
- selekcija noun (process or act of selecting)
- избор noun (something selected)
- селекција noun (process or act of selecting)
Slovak
4 entries- selekcia noun (process or act of selecting)
- voľba noun (something selected)
- výber noun (process or act of selecting)
- výber noun (something selected)
Slovene
4 entries- izbira noun (process or act of selecting)
- izbor noun (something selected)
- izbor noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- selekcija noun (process or act of selecting)
Spanish
2 entries- selección noun (process or act of selecting)
- selección noun (something selected)
Swedish
1 entries- urval noun (process or act of selecting)
Tagalog
2 entries- pilian noun (process or act of selecting)
- pilian noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
Turkish
4 entries- ayırma noun (process or act of selecting)
- seleksiyon noun (something selected)
- seleksiyon noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- seçenek noun (something selected)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ви́бір noun (process or act of selecting)
- відбі́р noun (process or act of selecting)
Walloon
4 entries- leccion noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- relijha noun (variety of items taken from a larger collection)
- relijhaedje noun (process or act of selecting)
- tchoezixhaedje noun (process or act of selecting)
Yiddish
1 entries- וואַל noun (process or act of selecting)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
It offers a mouth-watering selection of delights.
Source: tatoeba (29898)
Rules in connection with staff selection are set as follows.
Source: tatoeba (327718)
The old selection process for judges was very unfair.
Source: tatoeba (890576)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.