Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. choose, take, select, pick out(verb)

   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"

2. choose, prefer, opt(verb)

   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"

3. choose(verb)

   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"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. choose(Verb)

   To elect.

   He was chosen as president in 1990

2. choose(Verb)

   To pick.

   I chose a nice, ripe apple from the bowl.

3. choose(Verb)

   To decide to act in a certain way.

   I chose to walk to work today.

4. choose(Conjunction)

   The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.

   The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is uE00024529uE001 or "n choose k".

Origin: From chosen, chesen, from ceosan, from keusanan, from ǵews-. Cognate with chose, chese, kese, kieze, Dutch kiezen, kiesen, kyse, Norwegian kjose, tjusa, Icelandic kjósa, Gothic
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033D, gusto.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Choose(verb)

   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

2. Choose(verb)

   to wish; to desire; to prefer

3. Choose(verb)

   to make a selection; to decide

4. Choose(verb)

   to do otherwise

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Choose

   chōōz, v.t. to take one thing in preference to another: to select.—v.i. to will or determine: to think fit:—pa.t. chōse; pa.p. chōs′en.—ns. Choos′er (Shak.), one who chooses; Choos′ing, choice: selection.—Cannot choose, can have no alternative.—Not much to choose between, each about equally bad.—Pick and choose, to select with care. [A.S. céosan, Dut. kiesen.]

Editors Contribution(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. choose

   Choose (verb) is a state of longing to single out.

   Choose is a condition of decision making to select freely.

   Submitted by pinkss5 on September 16, 2015

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'choose' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1578

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'choose' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1378

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'choose' in Verbs Frequency: #136

Anagrams for choose »

1. Cohoes

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of choose in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of choose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Sang-sun Yi:

   I chose not to choose life

2. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

   Of two evils choose neither.

3. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner:

   We choose singing and happiness.

4. Andy Crestodina:

   Don’t choose colors arbitrarily.

5. Laurent Jeannin:

   You can choose according to your taste.

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