Choice: Definition and part of speech

Choice

  1. superl. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
  2. n. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
  3. n. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
  4. n. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
  5. n. A sufficient number to choose among.
  6. n. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
  7. n. The best part; that which is preferable.
  8. superl. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
  9. superl. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; — used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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