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What does "choice" mean?

Choice: 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. Hooker.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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 Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.
  2. 3.A sufficient number to choose among. Shak.
  3. 4.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. Shak.
  4. 5.The best part; that which is preferable. The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. Milton. To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference. Syn. - See Volition, Option.
  5. 6.Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.
  6. 7.Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
  7. 8.Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth. Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/

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