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