Noun

(en noun)

An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}

Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

Anything that can be chosen.

The best or most preferable part.

* Milton

The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.

Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination.

* Francis Bacon

I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice .

(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

(Shakespeare)

Noun

(en noun)

*{{quote-book, year=1845, author=Mrs. Thomson, title=Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Since this then is plainly the case, there can be no choise in dying honourably in the field for so just a cause, or leving to see the ruin and intire destruction of our country, our King, and our friends and relations. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1652, author=Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, title=Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1602, author=William Shakespeare, title=The Merry Wives of Windsor, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I'' beare to young ''Anne Page'', And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise , Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish ''Slender'', 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat ''Falstaffe'' had a mightie scare, Must ''Slender'' take her and carrie her to ''Catlen , And there vnknowne to any, marrie her. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1592, author=Philippe de Mornay, title=A Discourse of Life and Death, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise , to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Ye shall haue choise of a thousande as good as shee, And ye must pardon hir, it is for lacke of witte. }}