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Grammar : Verb
Spell : chooz
Phonetic Transcription : tʃuz



Definition of choose

Origin :
  • Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cf. Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.
  • verb pick, select
Example sentences :
  • They will choose competent and faithful representatives for every department.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • If there were people in the building they did not choose to show a light.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The girls can talk quietly and confidentially, if they choose.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • What instinct made you choose that shade of pale green for your frock?
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • But death will I choose, in any shape, rather than that man.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Mockery is the share they choose in the motions of the life eternal!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • But there is really no need to choose between anarchy and tyranny.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • So far, there was little to choose betwixt challengers and challenged.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Neither would now choose the other as an intimate associate.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

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