choose
UK/t͡ʃuːz//t͡ʃuz/
choose verb: to pick; to make the choice of; to select.
Verb
choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)
- To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
- Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct...
- To elect.
- He was chosen as president in 1990.
- To decide to act in a certain way.
- I chose to walk to work today.
- To prefer; to wish; to desire.
- The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC
- Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Conjunction
choose
- The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
- The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".
Noun
choose (plural chooses)
choose meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
choose in Hindi
- to pick
- चुनना cunnā
- to elect
- चुनना cunnā
choose in Tamil
- தேர்ந்தெடு
choose in Marathi
- to pick
- निवडणे nivaḍṇe
- to elect
- निवडणे nivaḍṇe
choose in Urdu
- to pick
- چننا cunnā
- to elect
- چننا cunnā
More languagesFewer languages
- choose in Bengali
- নির্বাচন করা nirbacon kora
- choose in Telugu
- వరించు variñcu
- choose in Malayalam
- പെറുക്കിയെടുക്കുക, തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക, നിർണ്ണയിക്കുക, വരിക്കുക
- choose in Kannada
- ಆಯಿಸು āyisu
- choose in Punjabi
- ਚੋਣ ਕਰੋ
- choose in Gujarati
- ચૂંટવું cū̃ṭvũ
- choose in Sanskrit
- वृणोति vṛṇoti
- choose in Sinhala
- තෝරා ගන්නවා tōrā gannawā
- choose in Assamese
- বাছা বাছনি basa, নিৰ্বাচন কৰা nirrason kora
- choose in Nepali
- छान्नु chānnu
- choose in Tagalog
- pili
- choose in Arabic
- اِخْتَارَ iḵtāra
- choose in Malay
- pilih
- choose in Indonesian
- memilih, pilih
- choose in Persian
- گزیدن gazidan, برگزیدن, انتخاب کردن
- choose in Thai
- เลือก lʉ̂ʉak, คัดเลือก kát lêuak, คัด kát, เฟ้น fén
- choose in Vietnamese
- chọn, lựa chọn, kén chọn
- choose in Myanmar
- ရွေး rwe:
Examples of choose in a sentence
- A nearby to-infinitive may be a factor for choosing 'in order to', as will emphasis.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
Synonyms of choose
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Antonyms
Forms of choose
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | chooses |
| present participle | choosing |
| past | chose |
| past participle | chosen |
| past (nonstandard) | choosed |
| past participle (nonstandard) | choosed |
| past participle (colloquial) | chose |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | choosest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | chosest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | choosedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | chooseth |
| alternative form (archaic) | chuse |
| Noun | |
| plural | chooses |
Origin of choose
From Middle English chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten”), Faroese and Icelandic kjósa (“to vote; to elect; to choose; to prefer”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjosa, kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm; to bewitch”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), French choisir (“to choose”); also Breton diuz (“to choose”), Cornish and Welsh dewis (“to choose”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed; to taste; to eat; to try; to enjoy”), Czech zkoušet (“to taste; to examine; to rehearse”), Polish kuszać (“to eat”), Russian кушать (kušatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”), Serbo-Croatian ку̏шати, kȕšati (“to taste; to test”), Ukrainian ку́шати (kúšaty, “to taste; to eat”), куштува́ти (kuštuváty, “to taste”)...
From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of Middle English chois (“choice”). Cognate with Scots chose, choose, chuse (“choosing, choice, selection”). Doublet of choice, see which for more.
Words formed from choose
- choosability
- choosable
- chooseable
- choose cone
- choose one's battles
- choose one's fighter
- choose out
- chooser
- choose sides
- choose the wrong horse
- choose up
- choose violence
- choose-your-own-adventure
- choose your own adventure
- choosingly
- cut and choose
- divide and choose
- forechoose
- I choose violence
- mischoose
- nothing to choose between
- pick and choose
- prechoose
- rechoose
- right to choose
- unchoose
Phrases with choose
Words that rhyme with choose
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amuse
- bemuse
- excuse
- misuse
- muse
- ooze
- peruse
- accuse
- booze
- druse
- news
- ruse
- snooze
- suffuse
- transfuse
- who's
- whose
- circumfuse
- cooze
- defuse
- diffuse
- enthuse
- flues
- fuze
- jalouse
- mews
- perfuse
- snooz
- Toulouse
- twos
- yous
- 'scuse
- accrues
- aloos
- bambooze
- blooze
- boos
- boose
- brews
- canoes
- chews
- clews
- clues
- construes
- contuse
- coos
- coups
- crews
Questions about choose
- What does choose mean?
- Choose means to pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- What is choose in Hindi?
- Choose in Hindi is चुनना (cunnā). See Choose meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is choose?
- Choose can be a verb, a conjunction or a noun.
- How do you pronounce choose?
- Choose is pronounced /t͡ʃuːz/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of choose?
- The past tense of choose is chose.
Words near choose in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: choose (page history and authors); choose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); వరించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); choose (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಆಯಿಸು (Kannada) (page history and authors); choose (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ચૂંટવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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