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CHOCOLATE
chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber
(noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color
chocolate
(noun) a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
cocoa, chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate
(noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)
(mostly, uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
(mostly, uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
(countable, slang) A black person; (uncountable) blackness.
Meronyms
(Meronyms of chocolate (noun)):
• black bottom pie
• Black Forest gateau
• brownie
• cocoa butter
• crème de cacao
• devil's food cake
• ganache
• lamington
• marquise
• mocha
• mochaccino
• mole
• Nanaimo bar
• praline
• sacher torte
• tollhouse cookie
• truffle
Holonyms
• cacao
• cocoa bean
Coordinate terms
• carob
Adjective
chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)
Made of or containing chocolate.
Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
(slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
Verb
chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)
(transitive, rare, chiefly, in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
(rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
Anagrams
• cacholote
Source: Wiktionary
Choc"o*late, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. the Mexican name of the cacao. Cf. Cacao, Cocoa.]
1. A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
2. The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate.
– Chocolate nut. See Cacao.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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