noun a wishing; a wish.
2. option ·noun the exercise of the power of choice; choice.
3. option ·noun the power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
4. option ·noun a stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
5. option ·noun a right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant;
annulled by parliament in 1845.