CHOSEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chosen mean? 

• CHOSEN (noun)
  The noun CHOSEN has 3 senses:

1. one who is the object of choice; who is given preference

2. the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)

3. an exclusive group of people

  Familiarity information: CHOSEN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOSEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who is the object of choice; who is given preference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

she was Mama's chosen

Hypernyms ("chosen" is a kind of...):

darling; dearie; deary; ducky; favorite; favourite; pet (a special loved one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula (an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An exclusive group of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

chosen; elect

Context example:

one of the elect who have power inside the government

Hypernyms ("chosen" is a kind of...):

elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

 Context examples 

Among alternatives or options that are being chosen by humans, the priorityNumber specifies preference.

(Defined Criterion Group Option Relationship Priority Number, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The treatment plan for a disease or disorder that has been chosen as the best one for a patient after all other choices have been considered.

(Definitive treatment, NCI Dictionary)

Professor Challenger replied that he reserved such information for good reasons of his own, but would be prepared to give it with proper precautions to a committee chosen from the audience.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The more remote the future reward, the lower its perceived present value (the more it is discounted) and the less likely it is to be chosen.

(Delayed Reward Discounting, NCI Thesaurus)

After many serious discussions with Meg and Jo, the pattern was chosen, the materials bought, and the slippers begun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A set of terms that are selected and defined based on the requirements set out by the user group, usually a set of vocabulary is chosen to promote consistency across data collection projects.

(Controlled Vocabulary, NCI Thesaurus)

Your own way—with the husband you have chosen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He told me that he and his companions had been chosen by the other sailors to come in deputation to me to make me a requisition which, in justice, I could not refuse.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Frederick will not be the first man who has chosen a wife with less sense than his family expected.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Here we have chosen to highlight a group of the phosphoinositide targets of the PI3-Ks and their downstream targets.

(Phosphoinositide Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)