chosen

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• chōz'ən
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃəʊ.zən/
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃoʊ.zən/
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• rhymes with -əʊzən
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• CMU ARPABET: CH OW1 Z AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English chosen, ychosen, ichosen, re-analysed variant of coren, icoren, ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English coren, ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of Old English ċēosan (“to choose”). Morphologically equivalent to choose + -en (past participle ending).

Borrowed from Japanese 朝鮮 (Chōsen).

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Galician: escolleito — picked
• German: gewählt — picked
• German: ausgewählt — picked
• German: ausgesucht — picked
• German: erwählt — picked
• Ancient Greek: ἐκλεκτός (eklektós) — picked
• Ancient Greek: κριτός (kritós) — picked
• Hindi: चयनित (caynit) — picked
• Latin: ēlectus — picked
• Latin: optīvus — picked
• Portuguese: escolhido — picked
• Serbo-Croatian: izabran — picked
• Serbo-Croatian: odabran — picked
• Spanish: escogido — picked
• Swedish: vald — picked
• Turkish: seçme — picked
• Galician: electo — elected
• German: gewählt — elected
• German: erwählt — elected
• Hindi: निर्वाचित (nirvācit) — elected
• Portuguese: eleito — elected
• Swedish: vald — elected