Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. Choicer; superl. Choicest.]

1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

My choicest hours of life are lost. --Swift.

2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

Choice word measured phrase. --Wordsworth.

Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Choice \Choice\ (chois), n. [OE. chois, OF. chois, F. choix, fr. choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. [root]46. Cf. Choose.]

1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it. --Hooker.

3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

I imagine they [the apothegms of C[ae]sar] were collected with judgment and choice. --Bacon.

4. A sufficient number to choose among. --Shak.

5. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

The common wealth is sick of their own choice. --Shak.

6. The best part; that which is preferable.

The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. --Milton.

To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

Syn: Syn. - See Volition, Option.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)