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choc⋅o⋅late

  [chaw-kuh-lit, chok-uh-, chawk-lit, chok-]
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–noun
1. a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
2. a beverage made by dissolving such a preparation in milk or water, served hot or cold: a cup of hot chocolate.
3. candy made from such a preparation.
4. an individual piece of this candy.
5. any syrup or flavoring made from this preparation or artificially imitating its flavor.
6. a dark brown color.
–adjective
7. made, flavored, or covered with chocolate: chocolate cake; chocolate ice cream.
8. having the color of chocolate; dark-brown.
Origin:
1595–1605; < Sp < Nahuatl chocolātl

Related forms:
choc⋅o⋅lat⋅y, adjective
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choc·o·late   (chô'kə-lĭt, chôk'lĭt, chŏk'-)   
n.  

  1. Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.

  2. A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.

  3. A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.

  4. A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

adj.  

  1. Made or flavored with chocolate: chocolate pudding.

  2. Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.


[Spanish, from Nahuatl xocolatl : xococ, bitter + atl, water.]
choc·o·lat·y, choc·o·lat·ey (-lĭ-tē) adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

chocolate 
1604, from Nahuatl xocolatl, from xococ "bitter" + atl "water." Brought to Spain for first time 1520. John Hannon (financed by Dr. James Baker) started the first chocolate factory in the U.S. in Dorchester, 1780; Baker later founded Baker's Chocolate. Chocolate chip is from 1940.
"To a Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte, very good" [Pepys, "Diary," Nov. 24, 1664].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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