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select.

Privileged, specially selected.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/sɪˈlɛkt//səˈlɛkt/

  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.

  2. Of high quality; top-notch.

    This is a select cut of beef.
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin sē- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin sēlegō Latin sēlēctuslbor. English select From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

verb/sɪˈlɛkt//səˈlɛkt/

  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.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder. Latin sē- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin sēlegō Latin sēlēctuslbor. English select From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

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