CHOSE
What does "CHOSE" mean?
The past tense of 'choose': to have selected from a number of options.
Meanings
- Past tense of 'choose'; picked or decided on something from alternatives. Of all the colleges that accepted her, she chose the one nearest the sea.
- In law, an item of personal property or a thing recognized as a possession. A debt owed to you is a chose in action rather than a physical object. technical
Did you know?
- Lawyers use 'chose' as a noun meaning a thing you own: a 'chose in action' (like a debt) is a possession you can only claim through a lawsuit, while a 'chose in possession' is one you can physically hold.
Word origin
Past tense of 'choose', from Old English 'ceosan', 'to choose, taste, try'; the legal noun is a separate borrowing of French 'chose', 'thing', from Latin 'causa'.
Remember it
CHOSE is past, CHOOSE has two O's because in the present you still have two options to weigh.
A little poem
Two roads, one taken-and the other one
is no less real for being left undone.
couplet
What it teaches
Every choice is two acts: the one you take, and all the ones you quietly set down.
Quick facts
What does CHOSE mean?
The past tense of 'choose': to have selected from a number of options.
Is CHOSE a valid word?
Yes — CHOSE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHOSE?
CHOSE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHOSE come from?
Past tense of 'choose', from Old English 'ceosan', 'to choose, taste, try'; the legal noun is a separate borrowing of French 'chose', 'thing', from Latin 'causa'.
What can CHOSE teach us?
Every choice is two acts: the one you take, and all the ones you quietly set down.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.