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Chocolate Made Box Noun Bre ˈtʃɒklət ˈtʃɔːklət Bar/Piece

Word chocolate
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈtʃɒklət / NAmE / ˈtʃɔːklət /
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  • a bar/piece of chocolate
  • a chocolate cake
  • a chocolate factory
  • a box of chocolates
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chocolate

(noun)BrE / ˈtʃɒklət / NAmE / ˈtʃɔːklət /
  1. a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans, used in cooking to add flavour to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet/candy
    • see also milk chocolate
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/milk-chocolate
    • a bar/piece of chocolate
    • a chocolate cake
    • a chocolate factory
  2. a sweet/candy that is made of or covered with chocolate
    • a box of chocolates
    • = hot chocolate
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hot-chocolate
    • a mug of drinking chocolate
  3. a dark brown colour
  4. Extra Examples

    • He broke off a few squares of chocolate.
    • I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates.
    • Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water.
    • She broke a bar of dark chocolate into four pieces.
    • Stir until the chocolate has melted.
    • a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate
    • a cup/mug of chocolate
    • chocolate chip cookies

    Word Origin

    • early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’.
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