choose
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)chose, chosen, chooses, choosing
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives“Take any one of these cards”“Choose a good husband for your daughter”“She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her”Synonyms: takeselectpick outMore general decide, make up one's mindMore specific adopt, prefer, specify, vote, elect, pick, assign, draw, single out, vote in +13 more
- select as an alternative over another“I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant”“She opted for the job on the East coast”Synonyms: preferoptMore general take, selectMore specific abstain, opt outInvolves compare
- see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way“She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam”More general evaluate, pass judgment
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Translations
Verb to pick
- Spanish
- escoger
- French
- choisir
- German
- wählen
- Italian
- scegliere
- Portuguese
- escolher
- Turkish
- seçmek
- Russian
- выбира́ть vybirátʹ
- Arabic
- اِخْتَارَ iḵtāra
- Chinese
- 选择 xuǎnzé
- Japanese
- 選ぶ erabu
36 more languages
- Dutch
- kiezen
- Polish
- wybrać
- Swedish
- välja
- Greek
- διαλέγω dialégo
- Korean
- 고르다 goreuda
- Indonesian
- memilih
- Vietnamese
- chọn
- Hungarian
- kiválaszt
- Portuguese (PT)
- escolher
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 選擇 xuǎnzé
- Albanian
- zgjedh
- Breton
- choaz
- Catalan
- escollir
- Corsican
- sceglie
- Czech
- vybrat
- Danish
- vælge
- Esperanto
- elekti
- Estonian
- valima
- Finnish
- valita
- Georgian
- ამორჩევა amorčeva
- Hebrew
- בחר bakhár
- Icelandic
- velja
- Kurdish
- bijartin
- Latvian
- izvēlēties
- Lithuanian
- pasirinkti
- Malagasy
- mifidy
- Norwegian
- velge
- Romanian
- alege
- Scottish Gaelic
- tagh
- Serbo-Croatian
- izabrati
- Slovak
- vybrať
- Slovenian
- izbrati
- Swahili
- -chagua
- Walloon
- tchoezi
- Welsh
- dewis
- Yiddish
- קלײַבן klaybn
Verb to decide to act in a certain way
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ceósan; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjōsa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. …, Skr. jush to enjoy. √46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.
1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Choose me for a humble friend.— Alexander Pope
2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. colloquial
The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.— Oliver Goldsmith
To choose sides. See under Side.
Synonyms: - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow. — To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress.
1. To make a selection; to decide.
They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion.— William Hickling Prescott
2. To do otherwise. “Can I choose but smile?” Alexander Pope
Can not choose but, must necessarily.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54