choose
/t͡ʃuz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To elect.
conj
The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "You may—the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will—have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the life you have chosen!"
- "The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day."
- "He was chosen as president in 1990."
- "I chose to walk to work today."
Etymology
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”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (zaoša, “pleasure”), Baluchi and Pashto دوست (dost, “friend”), Northern Kurdish and Zazaki dost (“friend”), Persian دوسْت (dōst / dust, “friend; boyfriend or girlfriend; loved”), Sanskrit जुषते (juṣate, “to enjoy”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵews-, chesen, ċēosan, *keusan, *keusaną, *ǵéwseti
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /t͡ʃuz/
- British English: /t͡ʃuːz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
chooses (present, singular)
choosing (participle, present)
chose (past)
choosed (nonstandard, past)
chosen (participle, past)
choosed (nonstandard, participle)
chose (colloquial, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
chose (first person, past)
choosed (first person, nonstandard)
choosest (archaic, present)