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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



... jealousies, I judge, as geese are strictly monogamous, and having chosen a partner of their joys and sorrows they cleave to each other until death or some other inexorable circumstance does them part. If they are ever mistaken in their choice, and think they might have done better, the world is none the wiser. Burd Alane looks in good condition, but Phoebe thinks he is not quite himself, and that some day when he is in greater strength he will turn on his foes and rend them, regaining ...
— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... as they really happened. Later there came to the old house by Blackfriars Bridge, where this young brotherhood used to meet and work, two young men from Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris—the latter substituting for the simpler realism of the early days a more exquisite spirit of choice, a more faultless devotion to beauty, a more intense seeking for perfection: a master of all exquisite design and of all spiritual vision. It is of the school of Florence rather than of that of Venice that he is kinsman, feeling that the close imitation of Nature is a disturbing element in ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde

... homely. While he is still refusing to admit the facts and beseeching her not to "desert" him, she in a gentle but businesslike way makes him promise to take care of the children and, above all things, not to marry again. She could not possibly trust Admetus's choice. She is sure that the step-mother would be unkind to the children. She might be a horror and beat them (l. 307). And when Admetus has made a thrilling answer about eternal sorrow, and the silencing of lyre and lute, and the statue who shall be his only bride, Alcestis earnestly calls the attention ...
— Alcestis • Euripides

... as third mate—Mr. Stewart, of course, stood his own watch, and chose Langley and myself as part of it. The mate generally kept us upon the quarter-deck with him, and many were the cozy confabs we used to hold, many the choice cigars we used to smoke upon that handy loafing-place, the booby-hatch, many the pleasant yarns we used to spin while pacing up and down the deck, or leaning against the rail of the companion. As I have said, Mr. Stewart was a delightful watch-mate—and ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... time perhaps, impunity and security. Evidently, also, the lives of the settlers would not be respected, and Bob Harvey and his accomplices' first care would be to massacre them without mercy. Harding and his companions had, therefore, not even the choice of flying and hiding themselves in the island, since the convicts intended to reside there, and since, in the event of the "Speedy" departing on an expedition, it was probable that some of the crew would remain on shore, ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne


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