Other forms: choices
A choice is the act of picking one thing rather than another, and also the thing picked and the range you may pick from. It is the same word for all three: it was a hard choice, it was the right choice, and there is a choice of three.
Note the countability, because it changes the meaning. A choice, countable, is one decision. Choice, uncountable, is the freedom to decide — more choice, no choice in the matter. Make a choice is the standard collocation; do a choice is wrong everywhere. As an adjective, choice means specially good and sounds slightly old-fashioned outside butchers' windows: choice cuts, a few choice words, where the last one is ironic and means rude ones.
1nounchoiceThe act of picking one thing rather than another.~65%
“It was a difficult choice and she took a week over it.”
2nounrangeThe range of things you can pick from.~17%
“There is a choice of four main courses.”
3nounfreedomThe freedom to decide.~16%
“I had no choice in the matter.”
4adjectivegoodOf especially good quality.~2%
“Choice apples were kept back for the show.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 18 sentences found in the wild and placed 12 of them on a sense (6 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
choice is a decision.
Also accepted in games: decision
Old French chois came from a Frankish verb meaning to taste or test — the same root as the English verb choose. Choosing was, first of all, sampling: you tried a thing before you took it, and the word for the trying became the word for the taking.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵews- — to choose
Proto-Germanic
*kauzijaną
Gothic
𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 — to make a choice, taste, test, choose
Vulgar Latin
*causīre — to choose
Old French
chois — choice
Middle English
chois
English, today
choice
Built from
From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (“to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic kauzijaną, from keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA