Etimology
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.
noun
choice (countable and uncountable, plural choices)
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
(uncountable) The power to choose.
One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
Anything that can be chosen.
(usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
(obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
(set theory) Ellipsis of axiom of choice.
Examples
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
She didn't leave us much choice.
For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be.
The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate
The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.
We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.
And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights
5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*.
Related words
synonyms
(selection or preference): option, possibility; see also Thesaurus:option
(anything that can be chosen): assortment, range, selection
(definite: best or most preferable part): the cream
(sufficient number to choose among): abundance, profusion; see also Thesaurus:cornucopia
related terms
choose
choosey
chosen
Etimology
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”).
adjective
choice (comparative choicer or more choice, superlative choicest or most choice)
Especially good or preferred.
(obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.
Examples
Synonyms: prime, prize, quality, select, choicy
It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach / Of ordinary men; a stately speech;
Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.
One day the cabin steward made me a present of some molasses, which I was so choice of that I kept it hid away in a tin can in the farthest corner of my bunk.
interjection
choice
(slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
Examples
"I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"