select

Privileged, specially selected.

Adjective

  1. Privileged, specially selected.
    • Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
    • The child was upset when he was cut from select soccer and had to play on his school team with the rest of the plebes.
    • A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the...
  2. Of high quality; top-notch.
    • This is a select cut of beef.
    • The two sisters at once called on Mrs. Bolton, in a newish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall. - 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:

Origin

From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

Forms

more select most select

Verb

  1. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
    • He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
    • The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
  2. To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

Forms

selects selecting selected no-table-tags glossary select selectest selectedst selecteth -

Synonyms

choose opt

Antonyms

deselect

Related

elect election elective elite en option-select selection selective

Derived

autoselect bioselect counterselect downselect hand-select misselect multiselect nonselecting overselect preselect quickselect reselect selectability selectable select agent select committee selectee selectin selectly selectman select meeting selectness selectome selector