choice (choices plural) (choicer comparative) (choicest superlative )
1 n-count If there is a choiceof things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
(=selection)
It's available in a choice of colours..., At lunchtime, there's a choice between the buffet or the set menu..., Club Sportif offer a wide choice of holidays.
2 n-count Your choice is someone or something that you choose from a range of things.
usu poss N
Although he was only grumbling, his choice of words made Rodney angry.
3 adj Choice means of very high quality.
FORMAL ADJ n
(=select)
...Fortnum and Mason's choicest chocolates.
4 If you have no choicebut to do something or have little choicebut to do it, you cannot avoid doing it.
have no choice/ have little choice phrase V inflects
They had little choice but to agree to what he suggested.
5 The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
of one's choice phrase n PHR
...tickets to see the football team of your choice..., In many societies children still marry someone of their parents' choice.
6 The item of choice is the one that most people prefer.
of choice phrase PHR after n The drug is set to become the treatment of choice for asthma worldwide...
multiple choice , multiple-choice
In a multiple choice test or question, you have to choose the answer that you think is right from several possible answers that are listed on the question paper. adj usu ADJ n
pro-choice , prochoice
Someone who is pro-choice thinks that women have a right to choose whether or not to give birth to a child they have conceived, and to have an abortion if they do not want the child. adj
(Antonym: pro-life)
...the pro-choice movement..., most of the electorate is pro-choice.
