choice
choice is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 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.
- 3.A sufficient number to choose among. Shak.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6.Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.
- 7.Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
- 8.Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth. Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accord
- all
- and
- authority
- authorship
- autocratic
- bid
- casual
- cause
- choose
- command
- composition
- conation
- course
- deliberately
- desire
- determination
- determine
- diction
- discretion
- discretional
- discretionary
- dress
- eloquence
- enjoin
- est
- exercise
- express
- expression
- fit
- force
- frame
- free
- freedom
- good
- have
- head
- inclination
- intended
- intention
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is choice.
- What is 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 called?
- What is a sufficient number to choose among. Shak called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift called?
- What is preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money called?
- What is selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth. Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/ called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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