3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. {Choicer}; superl. {Choicest}.]
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior;
precious; valuable.
My choicest hours of life are lost. --Swift.
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. --Wordsworth.
Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare
chary; careful/
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choice \Choice\ (chois), n. [OE. chois, OF chois, F. choix, fr
choisir to choose of German origin; cf Goth. kausjan to
examine, kiusan to choose examine, G. kiesen [root]46. Cf
{Choose}.]
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
--Hooker.
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 C[ae]sar] were
collected with judgment and choice. --Bacon.
4. A sufficient number to choose among. --Shak.
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.
--Shak.
6. 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: Syn. - See {Volition}, {Option}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
choice
adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "fine wines" "prime
beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select
peaches" [syn: {fine}, {prime(a)}, {prize}, {quality},
{select}]
2: appealing to refined taste; "choice wine"
n 1: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for
mayor" [syn: {pick}, {selection}]
2: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was
unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: {selection},
{pick}]
3: an alternative action "what option did I have?" or "there
no other alternative" or "my only choice is to refuse"
[syn: {option}, {alternative}]
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