choice
choice Lexical Profile
choice Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.
"Making the right career choice requires careful reflection on your personal strengths."
A range or variety of possibilities from which one or more may be selected.
"The university curriculum offers students a wide choice of elective courses."
A person or thing that has been selected or is preferred above others.
"She is the committee's top choice to lead the new research institute."
• adjective
Of very good or superior quality, especially with regard to food, wine, or commercial goods.
"The market vendor set aside the most choice peaches for his regular customers."
Carefully chosen and effective, or (ironically) rude, pointed, and outspoken in language.
"She offered a few choice words to the driver who cut her off in traffic."
• Rhymes for choice
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French 'chois', a noun derived from the verb 'choisir' (to choose), which was itself adopted from a Frankish or Gothic root related to Old English 'ceosan' (to choose, taste, or test).