Chose

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəʊz/

Definitions

1. To have selected one option from several possibilities To have made a decision by picking an alternative from available choices To have identified a preferred choice among multiple options offered
2. To have made a selection after considering several options
3. Having picked one item or course after evaluating alternatives

Etymology: Old French "chose" meant "thing," and it descends from Latin "causa," meaning "cause" or "reason," the same root that gave English "cause." The two words are doublets, meaning they came into the language by different routes from one source. English kept the French form in legal phrases such as "chose in action," a term for a right to a debt or claim rather than a physical possession. The verb spelled the same way has a separate history. It comes from Old English "ceosan," a Germanic word, so the matching spelling and sound are coincidence between two unrelated roots.

Synonyms: selected, picked, elected

Antonyms: rejected, discarded