chocolate
[chaw-kuh-lit, chok-uh-, chawk-lit, chok-]
- a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- a beverage made by dissolving such a preparation in milk or water, served hot or cold: a cup of hot chocolate.
- candy made from such a preparation.
- an individual piece of this candy.
- any syrup or flavoring made from this preparation or artificially imitating its flavor.
- a dark brown color.
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- made, flavored, or covered with chocolate: chocolate cake; chocolate ice cream.
- having the color of chocolate; dark-brown.
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Origin of chocolate
1595–1605; < Spanish < Nahuatl chocolātl
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Contemporary Examples
The one flavor you can always count on, however, is rich chocolate, the most chocolaty food imaginable.
Rich and chocolaty but airy and cold, this dessert is made even more appealing by how easy it is to prepare.
Historical Examples
I give my icings, fillings, pies and puddings "that chocolaty taste" of Runkel's without bothering to grate chocolate.
Mrs. Wilson's Cook BookMary A. Wilson
chocolate
- a food preparation made from roasted ground cacao seeds, usually sweetened and flavoured
- a drink or sweetmeat made from this
- a moderate to deep brown colour
- (as adjective)a chocolate carpet
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Word Origin
C17: from Spanish, from Aztec xocolatl, from xococ sour, bitter + atl water
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Word Origin and History for chocolaty
chocolate
n.
c.1600, from Nahuatl xocolatl, possibly from xocolia "to make bitter" + atl "water." Brought to Spain by 1520, from thence to the rest of Europe. Originally a drink; as a paste or cake made of ground, roasted, sweetened cacao seeds, 1640s.
To a Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte, very good [Pepys, "Diary," Nov. 24, 1664].
As a color from 1776. Chocolate chip is from 1940; chocolatier is attested from 1888.
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