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say it: choys
choice is a noun and adjective meaning "the person or thing chosen or selected". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɔɪs/ — choys. It carries 5 recorded senses.
“your choice of colors was unfortunate”
“you can take your pick”
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
“what option did I have?”
“there is no other alternative”
“my only choice is to refuse”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for choice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.