chocolate

Meaning

Noun

1. A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
2. A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
3. A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
4. A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
5. A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
6. (slang) A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

Adj

1. Made of or containing chocolate.
2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
3. (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

Verb

1. To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
2. To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

Concepts

chocolate

cocoa

hot chocolate

burnt umber

coffee

deep brown

umber

drinking chocolate

chocolate-coloured

chocolate-colored

choc

chocolate colour

dark brown

to drink chocolate

chocolate-brown

piece confectionery

Hyphenated as

choc‧o‧late

Pronounced as (IPA)

/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”).