choice vs first-rate

choice

• Especially good or preferred. 

• One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. 

• Anything that can be chosen. 

• The power to choose. 

• Do I have a choice of what color to paint it? 

• An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. 

• The best or most preferable part. 

• Cool; excellent. 

first-rate

• Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality. 

• Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen. 

• A first-rate ship of the line.