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Synonyms for choicest

Grammar : Adj
Spell : chois
Phonetic Transcription : tʃɔɪs

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Définition of choicest

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "that which is choice," from choice (adj.) blended with earlier chois (n.) "action of selecting" (c.1300); "power of choosing" (early 14c.), "someone or something chosen" (late 14c.), from Old French chois "one's choice; fact of having a choice" (12c., Modern French choix), from verb choisir "to choose, distinguish, discern; recognize, perceive, see," from a Germanic source related to Old English ceosan "to choose, taste, try;" see choose. Late Old English chis "fastidious, choosy," from or related to ceosan, probably also contributed to the development of choice. Replaced Old English cyre "choice, free will," from the same base, probably because the imported word was closer to choose [see note in OED].
  • adj best, superior
Example sentences :
  • He had a brilliant mind, and said the choicest things with a horse laugh.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • It did seem as if the choicest fruit always came to her specked.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • This was a retired spot, not of the choicest kind, leading into the fields.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Let the choicest dainties be heaped together in unbounded profusion.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • “He is here,” he repeated gravely, and the words were couched in his choicest accents.
  • Extract from : « Once to Every Man » by Larry Evans
  • It could not be denied that this man had been the world's choicest favorite.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • Man, the devil does his choicest work through fools, not rogues!
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • Even then they only took the choicest parts, leaving the rest to the birds.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Settlers » by Noah Brooks
  • At parties, it was she to whom he had brought the choicest favors.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • We had six kinds of choicest wines, which impressed me then.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland

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