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Choice   /tʃɔɪs/   Listen
noun
Choice  n.  
1.
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.
The power or opportunity of choosing; option. "Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it."
3.
Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. "I imagine they (the apothegms of Caesar) were collected with judgment and choice."
4.
A sufficient number to choose among.
5.
The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. "The common wealth is sick of their own choice."
6.
The best part; that which is preferable. "The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound."
To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.
Synonyms: Syn. - See Volition, Option.


adjective
Choice  adj.  (compar. choicer; superl. choicest)  
1.
Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. "My choicest hours of life are lost."
2.
Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
3.
Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. "Choice word measured phrase."
Synonyms: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/





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"Choice" Quotes from Famous Books



... I've had so many aliases—suppose I make out a list and let you take your choice. Most of my pals ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... is only in the beds of watercourses, that any ponds can be found during dry seasons. The formation of reservoirs has not yet been resorted to, although the accidental largeness of ponds left in such channels has frequently determined settlers in their choice of a homestead, when by a little labour, a pond equally good might have been made in other parts, which few would select from the want of water. In the rocky gullies, that I had passed in these mountains, there was, probably, a sufficiency, ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... Vote of the men for a Sergeant of the three highest numbers a choice to be made Gass Bratton & Gibson- Gass is worth remark, that my Ink after Standing in the pot 3 or four days Soaks ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... to be observed in Bowling, is the right chusing your Bowl, which must be suitable to the Grounds you design to run on, thus: For close Alleys, your best choice is the Flat Bowl: 2. For open Grounds of Advantage, the Round-byassed-bowl. 3. For Green Swarths, that are plain and level, the Bowl that is Round ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... determines to leave the order of subjects and the choice of words and phrases to the impulse of the moment, his thoughts may travel too fast, or too slowly, or too irregularly for the essential result: for the blessing which Christ promised is to those who unite in worship. (S. Matth. ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson


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