Definition of Choice

1. Adjective. Of superior grade. "Select peaches"

Exact synonyms: Prime, Prize, Quality, Select
Similar to: Superior
Derivative terms: Choiceness

2. Noun. The person or thing chosen or selected. "He was my pick for mayor"
Exact synonyms: Pick, Selection
Generic synonyms: Deciding, Decision Making
Specialized synonyms: Pleasure, Favorite, Favourite, Way
Derivative terms: Pick

3. Adjective. Appealing to refined taste. "Choice wine"
Similar to: Tasty

4. Noun. The act of choosing or selecting. "You can take your pick"
Exact synonyms: Option, Pick, Selection
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"

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

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chocs
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chodas
chodder
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choenix
choenixes
chog
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choice (current term)
choice behaviour
choice morsel
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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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