(~s, ~r, ~st)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If there is a ~ of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
It’s available in a ~ of colours...
At lunchtime, there’s a ~ between the buffet or the set menu...
Club Sportif offer a wide ~ of holidays.
= selection
N-COUNT
2.
Your ~ is someone or something that you choose from a range of things.
Although he was only grumbling, his ~ of words made Rodney angry.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
3.
Choice means of very high quality. (FORMAL)
...Fortnum and Mason’s ~st chocolates.
= select
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
If you have no ~ but to do something or have little ~ but to do it, you cannot avoid doing it.
They had little ~ but to agree to what he suggested.
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
The thing or person of your ~ is the one that you choose.
...tickets to see the football team of your ~...
In many societies children still marry someone of their parents’ ~.
PHRASE: n PHR
6.
The item of ~ is the one that most people prefer.
The drug is set to become the treatment of ~ for asthma worldwide...
PHRASE: PHR after n