choose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: cho͞oz
ipa: /t͡ʃuːz/
homophone: chews
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: chooses
form: choosing
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form: choosed
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form: chuse
Etymology: From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).
Senses: examples: text: I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
text: Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.
ref: 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249:
text: The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
examples: text: He was chosen as president in 1990.
glosses: To elect.
examples: text: I chose to walk to work today.
glosses: To decide to act in a certain way.
examples: text: The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.
ref: 2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To prefer; to wish; to desire.
Synonyms: word: accept
word: adopt
word: appoint
word: cast
word: choose
word: crave
word: decide
word: designate
word: desire
word: determine
word: elect
word: embrace
word: espouse
word: excerpt
word: extract
word: favor
word: opt
word: pick
word: poll
word: predestine
word: preponderate
word: prefer
word: separate
word: select
word: settle
word: single out
word: vote
word: winnow
Derived terms: choosability
choosable
chooseable
choose one's battles
choose one's fighter
choose out
chooser
choose sides
choose the wrong horse
choose up
choose violence
choose your own adventure
choose-your-own-adventure
choosingly
cut and choose
divide and choose
forechoose
I choose violence
mischoose
nothing to choose between
pick and choose
prechoose
rechoose
right to choose
unchoose
Related terms: choice
choosy
chosen