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Words related to choose

Related / Similar Words: take, select, pick out, prefer, opt

Definition:

pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her";

select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast";

see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam";

Hyponyms: empanel, impanel, panel, field, sieve, sift, draw, dial, plump, go, pick, elect, excerpt, extract, take out, cull out, cream off, skim off, sieve out, pick over, assign, specify, set apart, single out, think of, set, determine, fix, limit, adopt, follow, espouse, screen, screen out, sort, vote in, nominate, propose, vote, side, go with, opt out, cop out

Entailments: compare

Derivational Morphology: choice, selection, option, pick, picker, chooser, selector, preferment, predilection, preference, orientation

Language Translations:
Bosnian: izabrati		Catalan: elegir and escollir
Chinese: 選舉 and 選擇		Croatian: izabrati
Danish: udvælge and vælge		Dutch: kiezen
Finnish: valita		French: choisir
Georgian: ამორჩევა		German: auswählen and wählen
Greek: διαλέγω and εκλέγω		Hebrew: לבחור
Hungarian: kiválaszt and megválaszt		Italian: eleggere and scegliere
Japanese: 選ぶ		Korean: 고르다
Latin: eligo		Polish: wybierać
Portuguese: escolher		Romanian: alege
Russian: выбирать		Serbian: izabrati
Slovene: izbrati and izvoliti		Spanish: elegir and escoger
Swedish: välja		Tagalog: pili
Yiddish: קלײַבן

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