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Definition of Choice
1. Adjective. Of superior grade. "Select peaches"
2. Noun. The person or thing chosen or selected. "He was my pick for mayor"
Generic synonyms: Deciding, Decision Making
Specialized synonyms: Pleasure, Favorite, Favourite, Way
Derivative terms: Pick
3. Adjective. Appealing to refined taste. "Choice wine"
4. Noun. The act of choosing or selecting. "You can take your pick"
Generic synonyms: Action
Specialized synonyms: Casting, Coloration, Colouration, Sampling, Conclusion, Decision, Determination, Volition, Willing, Election, Ballot, Balloting, Vote, Voting
Derivative terms: Opt, Pick, Select
5. Noun. One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen. "My only choice is to refuse"
Generic synonyms: Deciding, Decision Making
Specialized synonyms: Obverse, Druthers, Preference, Default, Default Option, Opening, Possibility, Possible Action, Impossibility, Impossible Action, Hobson's Choice, Soft Option
Derivative terms: Alternative
Definition of Choice
1. n. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
2. a. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
Definition of Choice
1. Noun. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. ¹
2. Noun. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. ¹
3. Noun. Anything that can be chosen. ¹
4. Noun. (usually with ''the'') The best or most preferable part. ¹
5. Adjective. Especially good or preferred. ¹
6. Adjective. (slang New Zealand) Cool; excellent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Choice
1. of fine quality [adj CHOICER, CHOICEST] : CHOICELY [adv] / one that is chosen [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choice
Literary usage of Choice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"FREEDOM FOE STUDENTS The college student coming from a good secondary school has
probably had some small amount of choice among the ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"For children and other animals have will, but not choice or purpose; ... Those who
say that choice is desire, or anger, or 3 wish, or an opinion of some ..."
3. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"No outsider can fathom his choice. The inner world is the scene of a balancing and
... If at the moment before decision an outsider would influence choice, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... formerly disgraced the freedom of election in the commonwealths of Greece and
Rome, too often influenced the choice of tlie successors of the apostles. ..."
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