choice Noun
( en noun)
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
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- 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.
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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)
Synonyms
* (anything that can be chosen) assortment, range, selection
* the cream
* See also
Related terms
* choose
* choosey
* chosen
* Hobson's choice
Adjective
( en-adj)
Especially good or preferred.
- It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
(slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
- Choice ! I'm going to the movies.
Synonyms
* (especially good or preferred) prime, prize, quality, select
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chouse English
Verb
To cheat, to trick.
* '', 1853, J. Forster (editor), ''The Works of Walter Savage Landor , Volume 1, page 29 ,
- I cannot think otherwise than that the undertaker of the aforecited poesy hath choused your Highness; for I have seen painted, I know not where, the identically same Dian, with full as many nymphs, as he calls them, and more dogs.
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(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
* 1980 , John R. Erickson, Panhandle Cowboy , page 79 ,
- This gave the roundup the appearance of a cavalry charge, and a stranger observing the procedure for the first time might have thought we were a bunch of green, possibly drunken cowboys making sport out of chousing' cattle. But we weren't ' chousing them, we were just trying to keep them in sight, and for a very good reason.
Synonyms
* (cheat) cheat, trick
Noun
( en noun)
One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
- (Hudibras)
A trick; a sham.
- (Johnson)
A swindler.
- (Ben Jonson)
( Webster 1913)
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