Choice Meaning
/tʃɔɪs/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
nounThe power to choose.
Sentence Examples
You made a wise choice.
You have no choice in this matter.
We are faced with a difficult choice.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After comparing both options, she made her ____ and signed the contract.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You have a ____ between the two different flavors of ice cream today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control."
— 2012 January 26, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74:
"For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be."
— 1907, Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States, page 68:
"The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound."
— 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:
"I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice."
— 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
"We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it."
— 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After comparing both options, she made her ____ and signed the contract.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You have a ____ between the two different flavors of ice cream today.