What does "chocolate" mean?
A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
Chocolate
/ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lɪt/ adj, noun, verb, slang
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- Grammar: chocolate is listed as adj, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: aroma, beige, bonbon, brittle.
- Useful contrasts: achromatic, colorless, neutral.
- Usage evidence: Don't you even think of eating my chocolate!
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. uncountable
"Chocolate is a very popular treat."
- 2 a medium brown to dark-brown color wordnet
- 3 A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water. uncountable
"Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;..."
- 4 a food made from roasted ground cacao beans wordnet
- 5 A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate. countable
"He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away."
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- 6 a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot wordnet
- 7 A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown). uncountable
"As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate."
- 8 A cat having a chocolate-colored coat. countable
- 9 A black person. countable, slang
""I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded."
- 10 A black person.; Blackness. slang, uncountable
"I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are."
Verb
- 1 To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate. rare, transitive
- 2 To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium. rare
"Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium."
Adjective
- 1 Made of or containing chocolate.
- 2 Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
- 3 Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin). slang
"She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills."
Antonyms
Example
"Don't you even think of eating my chocolate!"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chocolate"?
Common synonyms include: aroma, beige, bonbon, brittle, brown, brown.
How do you use "chocolate" in a sentence?
Don't you even think of eating my chocolate!
How do you pronounce "chocolate"?
Pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɒk.(ə.)lɪt/.
Etymology
Etymology tree Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor. Spanish chocolatebor. English chocolate Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).