To choose means to decide which person or thing you want from a group of options. It can also mean to prefer a certain action or path over others.
“Choose” comes from Old English “ceosan,” from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to taste or try, then to select. The word has long linked deciding with carefully testing or considering.
The ancient root of “choose” is related to “taste,” as if decisions were something you sampled before picking. Every choice is your brain running a quick future-simulation: if I do this, then what? Even not choosing is a kind of choice—your options quietly expire.
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