Definition of chose
- past tense of choose
1 a
: to select freely and after consideration
- choose a career
b
: to decide on especially by vote : elect
- chose her as captain
2 a
: to have a preference for
- choose one car over another
b
: decide
- chose to go by train
1
: to make a selection
- finding it hard to choose
2
: to take an alternative
—used after cannot and usually followed by but
- when earth is so kind, men cannot choose but be happy
- —J. A. Froude
