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chose
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ch?z, IPA(key): /t???z/
- (US) enPR: ch?z, IPA(key): /t?o?z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
chose
- simple past tense of choose
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
Etymology 2
From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
Noun
chose (plural choses)
- (law) A thing; personal property.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Choes, HCEOs, So-ch'e, choes, echos, oches
French
Etymology
From Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?oz/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [?ou?z]
- Rhymes: -oz
Noun
chose f (plural choses)
- thing
- Synonym: truc
- 1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté, Essais
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
- The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
Descendants
- ? German: Chose
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- échos
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chose, cose.
Noun
chose f (plural choses)
- thing
Descendants
- French: chose
Norman
Alternative forms
- (Saint Ouen) chôthe
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Adjective
chose m or f
- (Jersey) self-conscious
Old French
Alternative forms
- cosa (very early Old French)
- cose (chiefly Old Northern French)
Etymology
From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t??.z?]
Noun
chose f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)
- thing (miscellaneous object or concept)
Descendants
- Middle French: chose
- French: chose
- Walloon: tchôze
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choosing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?u?z??/
- Rhymes: -u?z??
Verb
choosing
- present participle of choose
Noun
choosing (plural choosings)
- The act of making a choice.
- 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law
- Parents, of course, now have a choice among private schools, but their choosings are not normally supported by public funds.
- 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law
choosing From the web:
- what choosing mean
- what choosing you
- choosing what type of business to start
- choosing what to study
- choosing what to study at university
- choosing what to sell
- choosing what to eat
- choosing what is right quotes
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