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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chosen
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arbitrarily chosen
▪ an arbitrarily chosen number
carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc
▪ carefully chosen words
chosen by lot
▪ In Athens at that time, judges were chosen by lot.
sb’s chosen career
▪ His parents encouraged him in his chosen career as a scientist.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the (privileged/chosen) few
▪ A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.
▪ But then Jeffries said that that article was one of the few that had examined his ideas on the merits.
▪ Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity.
▪ Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.
▪ I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open.
▪ Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him.
▪ The major drawback for all immigrant firms has been the difficulty in recruiting the few highly skilled key workers essential to production.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chosen

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Pope.

  2. 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

Chosen \Cho"sen\, p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
--Judg. xx. 16.

Chosen

Chosen \Cho"sen\, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chosen

"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
chosen

vb. (past participle of choose English)

WordNet
chosen

See choose

choose
  1. 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]

  2. 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]

  3. 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"

  4. [also: chosen, chose]

chosen
  1. adj. preferred above all others; "the chosen few"; "her chosen abode"

  2. n. one who is the object of choice; who is given preference; "she was Mama's chosen"

  3. the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)

  4. an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" [syn: elect]

Wikipedia
Chosen

Chosen or The Chosen may refer to:

Chosen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Chosen" is the series finale of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the 22nd episode of season 7 and the 144th episode of the series. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon and originally aired on UPN on May 20, 2003. The Buffy story would not be continued beyond this point until " The Long Way Home", a comic book, in 2007.

Chosen (album)

Chosen is the second album by gospel singer Vanessa Bell Armstrong. This album hit number one on the US Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart. The track "Nobody But Jesus" became a signature hit for the artist. Bell Armstrong joined R&B singer Kelly Price for a re-make of the song on the latter's debut gospel album This Is Who I Am for GospoCentric Records in 2006.

Chosen (TV series)

Chosen (stylized onscreen as CH:OS:EN accompanied by a ticking sound) is an American action-thriller television series/web series from Ben Ketai and Ryan Lewis, airing via online streaming video service Crackle. The first season consisted of six episodes released simultaneously, on January 17, 2013. On April 30, 2014, Crackle renewed the series for a fourth season.

Chosen (Dekker novel)

Chosen was written by Ted Dekker and was released on December 15, 2007. It is the first young adult novel in the new Lost Book series. These novels span the fifteen-year period that is omitted in the Circle Trilogy's Black and Red. Thomas Hunter is still the commander of the Forest Guard when these stories occur. Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal are selected by Thomas Hunter to be the new leaders of the Forest Guard. Johnis is separated from the other three members, and stumbles upon the legendary Roush. The Roush give Johnis, and the other three members of his party, a new task. He must find the seven missing Books of History. Johnis discovers that he was chosen by Elyon to find and complete the prophecy that a boy will find the Books. This task begins the Lost Books series.

Chosen (Cast novel)

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.