/ ˈtʃɒklət; NAmE ˈtʃɑːk-/ noun
1.
[ U ] a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans , used in cooking to add flavour to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet / candy :
a bar / piece of chocolate
a chocolate cake
a chocolate factory
—see also milk chocolate , plain chocolate
2.
[ C ] a sweet / candy that is made of or covered with chocolate :
a box of chocolates
3.
[ U , C ] ( BrE ) = hot chocolate :
a mug of drinking chocolate
—compare cocoa
4.
[ U ] a dark brown colour
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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.