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hot chocolate

hot chocolate noun: a warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.

hot chocolate: a warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather
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Noun

hot chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural hot chocolates)

  1. (uncountable) A warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.
    • My mom drinks hot chocolate before bed.
    Synonyms:
    hot cocoa, cocoa
  2. (countable) A serving of this beverage.
    • Could I get a hot chocolate with my toast?
  3. (uncountable) A powder usually made from cocoa, sugar, and other ingredients, used to prepare this beverage.
    • She likes to sprinkle hot chocolate on her ice cream.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To consume hot chocolate.
    • […] butter & toast & warm towels after bath & lying in bed in laughter, snuggling & hot chocolating. love.2006, Sean Burn, Edgecities, page 71
    • “Well, while you and Denise are hot chocolating, I shall be finalizing next week's arrangements,” said Svetlana haughtily.2010, Robin Anderson, La Di Da Di Bloody Da!', page 195

hot chocolate meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati

hot chocolate in Hindi

beverage
हॉट चॉकलेट hŏṭ cŏkleṭ, गरम चॉकलेट garam cŏkleṭ

hot chocolate in Urdu

beverage
ہاٹ چاکْلیٹ hāṭ cākleṭ, گَرْم چاکْلیٹ garm cākleṭ

hot chocolate in Bengali

beverage
হট চকলেট hoṭ cokoleṭ

hot chocolate in Gujarati

hot chocolate
ચોકલેટ cokleṭ
More languagesFewer languages
hot chocolate in Arabic
شُكُولَاتَة سَاخِنَة šukūlāta sāḵina, هوت جوكلت hōt čōklit
hot chocolate in Malay
coklat panas
hot chocolate in Indonesian
cokelat panas
hot chocolate in Thai
ช็อกโกแลตร้อน chɔ́k-goo-lɛ́t-rɔ́ɔn
hot chocolate in Vietnamese
nước sôcôla, sôcôla nóng, sô-cô-la nóng

Synonyms of hot chocolate

Forms of hot chocolate

Noun
pluralhot chocolates
Verb
third-person singular presenthot chocolates
present participlehot chocolating
past participlehot chocolated
pasthot chocolated

Questions about hot chocolate

What does hot chocolate mean?
Hot chocolate means a warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.
What is hot chocolate in Hindi?
Hot chocolate in Hindi is हॉट चॉकलेट (hŏṭ cŏkleṭ), गरम चॉकलेट (garam cŏkleṭ). See Hot chocolate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hot chocolate?
Hot chocolate can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of hot chocolate?
The plural of hot chocolate is hot chocolates.

Words near hot chocolate in the dictionary

  1. hot chicken
  2. hot chickens
  3. hot chips
  4. hot chisel
  5. hot chisels
  6. hot chocolate
  7. hot chocolate effect
  8. hot chocolated
  9. hot chocolates
  10. hot chocolating
  11. hot closet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hot chocolate (page history and authors); ચોકલેટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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