choose

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To pick one thing or person from a number of possibilities.

   I chose a ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

2. 2
   verb

   To decide to do something.

   I chose to walk to work today.

3. 3
   verb

   To pick someone for a position by voting or selection; to elect.

   He was chosen as president in 1990.

Common collocations

• choose your words Verb + noun

From Middle English cheosen, 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 taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and p…

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