choice
Meanings
noun
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- The power to choose.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
- Anything that can be chosen.
- The best or most preferable part.
- Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
- A sufficient number to choose among.
- Ellipsis of axiom of choice.
adj
- Especially good or preferred.
- Careful in choosing; discriminating.
intj
- Cool; excellent.
name
- A surname.
noun
- Acronym of Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense
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Etymology
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.
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