chocolate

Syllables: choc·o·late/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət//ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/

chocolate noun: a food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

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Noun

chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)

(uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- Chocolate is a very popular treat.
- 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
(uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 168
(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
- 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
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
- 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
(countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
(countable, slang) A black person.
- "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73
- “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69
1. (slang, uncountable) Blackness.
  - I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83
  - “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN

Adjective

chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)

Made of or containing chocolate.
Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
(slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
- 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

Verb

chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)

(rare, transitive) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
(rare) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
- Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.1992 August, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917
- It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843

chocolate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

chocolate in Hindi

food made from ground roasted cocoa beans: चॉकलेट cŏkleṭ, चाकलेट cākleṭ

chocolate in Tamil

food made from ground roasted cocoa beans: சாக்கலேட் cākkalēṭ

chocolate in Marathi

food made from ground roasted cocoa beans: चॉकलेट cŏkleṭ
colour: चॉकलेटी cŏkleṭī

chocolate in Urdu

food made from ground roasted cocoa beans: چاکْلیٹ cākleṭ

More languagesFewer languages

chocolate in Bengali: চকলেট cokoleṭ
chocolate in Telugu: చాకొలెట్ cākoleṭ
chocolate in Malayalam: ചോക്കലേറ്റ് cōkkalēṟṟŭ
chocolate in Kannada: ಚಾಕೋಲೆಟ್ cākōleṭ
chocolate in Punjabi: ਚੌਕਲੇਟ caukleṭ
chocolate in Gujarati: ચોકલિટ્ cokliṭ
chocolate in Odia: ଚକୋଲେଟ୍ cakoleṭ
chocolate in Sinhala: චොකලට් cokalaṭ
chocolate in Assamese: চক্লেট soklet
chocolate in Nepali: चकलेट cakleṭ
chocolate in Pashto: چاکلېټ čākleṭ
chocolate in Tagalog: tsokolate, tsokolateng, tsokolate na, kulay tsokolate
chocolate in Arabic: شُوكُولَاتَة šūkūlāta, شُوكُولَا šūkūlā
chocolate in Malay: coklat, perang
chocolate in Indonesian: cokelat, coklat
chocolate in Thai: ช็อกโกแลต chɔ́k-goo-lɛ́t
chocolate in Vietnamese: sô-cô-la, sôcôla, socola, kẹo sô-cô-la
chocolate in Myanmar: ချောကလက် hkyau:ka.lak
Sindhi: چاڪليٽ cākleṭ
Dhivehi: ޗޮކްލެޓް cok̊leṭ

Examples of chocolate in a sentence

We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?

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Synonyms of chocolate

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Forms of chocolate

Noun
plural	chocolates
Adjective
comparative	more chocolate
superlative	most chocolate
Verb
third-person singular present	chocolates
present participle	chocolating
past participle	chocolated
past	chocolated

Plural of chocolate: chocolates

Origin of chocolate

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

Words formed from chocolate

Phrases with chocolate

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Words that rhyme with chocolate

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Questions about chocolate

What does chocolate mean?: Chocolate means a food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
What is chocolate in Hindi?: Chocolate in Hindi is चॉकलेट (cŏkleṭ), चाकलेट (cākleṭ). See Chocolate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is chocolate?: Chocolate can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce chocolate?: Chocolate is pronounced /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/ (UK).
What is the plural of chocolate?: The plural of chocolate is chocolates.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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