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chose en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /t͡ʃoʊz/ (General-American)
  • chōz (Received-Pronunciation)
  • chōz (General-American)
  • /t͡ʃəʊz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, past) simple past of choose and (archaic spelling) chuse
    form of choose and
  2. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of choose
    form of choose
    • I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do. 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Houghton Mifflin, page 66:
    • Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city. 2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, Stanford University Press, page x:
    • From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son, 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 165-166:

chose en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.

Meanings

  1. A thing; personal property.

Forms

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choses Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

chose in possession · chose in action · chose local · chose transitory