Crossword clues for chosen
chosen
- Korea, to the Japanese
- On the A-list
- Potok novel, with "The"
- Korea, to Hirohito
- "Many are called but few are ___"
- Korea, to Japanese
- Picked note up in canteen before leaving
- Decided cotton skirt must cover tights
- Exclusive group
- Singled out
- Name for Korea
- The ___ few (elite group)
- Like a few?
- Japanese name for Korea
- ". . . but few are ___"
- Picked out
- Elite group, with "the"
- Elect
- Selected
- Appointed
- Select as an alternative
- Decide to act in a certain way
- See fit or proper to act in a certain way
- Choose instead
- Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- An exclusive group of people
- The name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)
- Who is given preference
- One who is the object of choice
- Prefer as an alternative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choose \Choose\, v. t. [imp. Chose; p. p. Chosen, Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Choosing.] [OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ce['o]san; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kj[=o]sa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. ?, Skr. jush to enjoy. [root]46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.]
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To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Choose me for a humble friend.
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To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]
The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
--Goldsmith.To choose sides. See under Side.
Syn: Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow.
Usage: To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress.
Chosen \Cho"sen\, p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
--Judg. xx.
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Chosen \Cho"sen\, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the elect, the select," especially those selected by God, c.1200, from past participle of choose (v.). Chosen people for "the Jews" is recorded from 1530s.
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of choose English)
WordNet
See choose
v. 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" [syn: take, select, pick out]
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" [syn: prefer, opt]
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"
adj. preferred above all others; "the chosen few"; "her chosen abode"
n. one who is the object of choice; who is given preference; "she was Mama's chosen"
the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)
an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" [syn: elect]
Wikipedia
Chosen or The Chosen may refer to:
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Chosen is the third novel of the House of Night fantasy series, written by American authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. The book was released on March 2, 2008 by St. Martin's Press, an extension of Macmillan Publishers. The book has been since translated into more than 20 other languages including French, Spanish, German and Chinese.
Zoey is plagued by a terrible secret: Neferet, the High Priestess of the Tulsa House of Night, has been reviving the fledglings who had rejected the Change to add them to her personal army. Among them is her best friend, Stevie Rae, and every second she grows further away from her humanity, but Zoey will fight for her even if she doesn't want it.
Usage examples of "chosen".
Her dress for the Garden-party, chosen to combine suitably with full academicals, lay, neatly folded, inside her suitcase.
But for a rival house to know that Mara had chosen to go personally to the slave market bespoke the presence of an informant very highly placed in Acoma ranks.
Then, if Acorus were to be chosen to host the master scepter, there would be more music, and plays, and a greater flowering of art and innovation.
Boston, Washington, out of modesty, had left the chamber, while a look of mortification, as Adams would tell the story, filled the face of John Hancock, who had hoped he would be chosen.
Samuel Locke, another from the class, was not only the youngest man ever chosen for the presidency of Harvard, but to Adams one of the best men ever chosen, irrespective of the fact that Locke had had to resign after only a few years in office, when his housemaid became pregnant.
But in 1765, the same year little Abigail was born and Adams found himself chosen surveyor of highways in Braintree, he was swept by events into sudden public prominence.
IN 1774, Adams was chosen by the legislature as one of five delegates to the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and with all Massachusetts on the verge of rebellion, he removed Abigail and the children again to Braintree, where they would remain.
The executive, the governor, should, Adams thought, be chosen by the two houses of the legislature, and for not more than a year at a time.
Then, in October, out of the blue, came word from Philadelphia that Adams had been chosen by Congress to return to France as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain, a position he had neither solicited nor expected.
When the electors met in February 1789, Washington was chosen President unanimously with 69 votes, while Adams, though well ahead of ten others, had 34 votes, or less than half.
Had Adams refrained from insulting the French, had he chosen more suitable envoys, the country would never have been brought to such a pass.
IN LATE 1820, at age eighty-five, Adams found himself chosen as a delegate to a state convention called to revise the Massachusetts constitution that he had drafted some forty years before.
When he returned home, he would join with Adana, the female who had been chosen for him, ensuring the continuation of his line, ensuring that all he was, all he knew, would be passed to the next generation.
A reservation here obviously required more than money, making Adele wonder again why Claverhouse had chosen this venue for their meeting.
His speed and vigor commanded their obedience: he passed the Hellespont with a chosen guard: and at the distance of a mile from Adrianople, the viziers and emirs, the imams and cadhis, the soldiers and the people, fell prostrate before the new sultan.