chocolate
pronunciation
How to pronounce chocolate in British English:
UK [ˈtʃɒklət]
How to pronounce chocolate in American English:
US [ˈtʃɔːklət]
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- Noun:
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a medium to dark brown color
Word Origin
- chocolate
- chocolate: [17] Chocolate is one of the contributions made to English by the Nahuatl language of the Aztec people. Their xocolatl was a compound noun formed from xococ ‘bitter’ and atl ‘water’, and therefore when first adopted by European languages (via Spanish) it was used for the drink ‘chocolate’. This was its original sense in English, and it was not for half a century or more that it came to be applied to solid, edible ‘chocolate’.
- chocolate (n.)
- c. 1600, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) 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.
Example
- 1. They melt chocolate with flows of warm water .
- 2. Taste a bit of chocolate .
- 3. The modern chocolate bar was born .
- 4. They can make anything of chocolate .
- 5. Those chocolate bars are still warm .