chocolate

CEFRA1

/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A sweet brown food made from roasted cocoa beans.
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noun
Extra detail
A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

In context

Who wants some hot chocolate?
As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

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In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62
Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242
A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29
Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27

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Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.