choco‧late S2 /ˈtʃɒklət, ˈtʃɒklɪt $ ˈtʃɑːkələt, ˈtʃɒːk-/ noun
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Spanish; Origin: Nahuatl xocoatl]

1. [uncountable] a sweet brown food that you can eat as a sweet or use in cooking to give foods such as cakes a special sweet taste:
a chocolate bar
a chocolate cake
a packet of chocolate biscuits
I prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate.

2. [countable] a small sweet that is covered with chocolate:
Would you like a chocolate?
a box of chocolates

3. [uncountable and countable] a hot sweet drink made with milk and chocolate, or a cup of this drink:
a mug of hot chocolate
Two coffees and one chocolate, please.

4. [uncountable] a dark brown colour

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chocolate
noun
I. sweet brown food
ADJ. dark, plain | milk | white | bitter | cooking
QUANT. bar, slab | bit, piece, square He broke off a few squares of chocolate.
box I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates.
VERB + CHOCOLATE eat, have | break (up) into pieces/squares She broke a bar of dark chocolate into four pieces.
grate | melt Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water.
coat/cover sth in/with, dip sth in, spread/sprinkle (sth with) a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate
CHOCOLATE + VERB melt Stir until the chocolate has melted.
CHOCOLATE + NOUN bar, chip | biscuit, cake, eclair, egg, gateau, ice cream, mousse, sauce | factory
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chocolate
II. small sweet made from chocolate
ADJ. soft-centred | hand-made
QUANT. box
CHOCOLATE + NOUN box

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chocolate
III. drink made from powdered chocolate
ADJ. hot | drinking
QUANT. cup, mug

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chocolate

milk chocolate (=chocolate with milk added to it)
ice-cream inside a milk chocolate coating
dark chocolate (also plain chocolate British English) (=without milk and with very little sugar)
strawberries dipped in dark chocolate
white chocolate (=white in colour, with a sweet milky taste)
Serve the cake with a white chocolate sauce.
bitter chocolate (=dark chocolate with a strong sharp taste)
Bitter chocolate may be added to meat sauces for extra flavour.
cooking chocolate (=chocolate to use in cooking)
Melt the cooking chocolate and spread it over the tray.
melted chocolate
Stir in the eggs and the melted chocolate.
a bar of chocolate (=a long block of chocolate)
He bought a Coke and a bar of chocolate.
a piece/bit of chocolate
Would you like a piece of chocolate?
a box of chocolates (=a box of small sweets covered with chocolate)
I gave Mum a box of chocolates for her birthday.
a slab of chocolate (=a large flat piece)
They shared a large slab of chocolate.
a square of chocolate (=a small square piece)
I only ate one small square of chocolate.
a chocolate cake/biscuit/pudding etc
For her birthday he made a chocolate cake.
chocolate chips (=very small pieces of chocolate)
vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips
a chocolate factory
My dream job would be working in a chocolate factory.

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