choice

Etymology

From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose. The adjectival meaning of "especially good, preferred, select" was likely influenced by Middle English chyse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīs, *ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).

noun

1. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
   Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control. 2012-01, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-01-08, page 74
   Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
2. (uncountable) The power to choose.
   She didn't leave us much choice.
   For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be. 1907, Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States, page 68
3. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
   The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
4. Anything that can be chosen.
   You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate
5. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
6. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
   1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1, We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.
7. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
   And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 5, scene 5, lines 17–18
8. (set theory) Ellipsis of axiom of choice..
   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*. 2016-07-15, Decio Krause, Jonas R.B. Arenhart, The Logical Foundations of Scientific Theories: Languages, Structures, and Models (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics), Routledge, page 51

adj

1. Especially good or preferred.
   It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
2. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.
   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. 1856, J. R. Planché (tr.), Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy, The Princess Carpillon

intj

1. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
   "I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"