Chose Meaning
/t͡ʃəʊz/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past of choose
verbpast participle of choose
Sentence Examples
We cheered for him and chose him as our captain.
The students chose her chairman.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She carefully ____ the red dress over the blue one for her graduation ceremony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ____ the blue dress because I thought it looked better on me city.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,"
— 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 10, lines 165-166:
"I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do."
— 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Houghton Mifflin, page 66:
"Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city."
— 2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, Stanford University Press, page x:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She carefully ____ the red dress over the blue one for her graduation ceremony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ____ the blue dress because I thought it looked better on me city.