choice

An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.countableuncountable

• Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

The power to choose.uncountable

• She didn't leave us much choice.

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.countableuncountable

• The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

Anything that can be chosen.countableuncountable

• You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.

The best or most preferable part.countableuncountableusually

• The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.

Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.countableobsoleteuncountable

• I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.

A sufficient number to choose among.countableobsoleteuncountable

• And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights

Ellipsis of axiom of choice.abbreviationalt-ofcountable

• 5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics (without choice) by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*.

Especially good or preferred.

• It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.

Careful in choosing; discriminating.obsolete

• Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.

Cool; excellent.New-Zealandslang

• "I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"