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chocolate

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See also: chocolaté

English

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WOTD – 23 December 2006
Chocolate (1: pieces of different flavours of chocolate bars)

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -ɪt, -eɪt
    • Hyphenation: choc‧o‧late

    Noun

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    chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)

    2. (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
      Chocolate is a very popular treat.
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62:
        In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
    3. (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
      • 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:
        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;...
    4. (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.
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242:
        Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
    5. (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.
      chocolate:  
    6. (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
    7. (countable, slang) A black person.
      • 1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73:
        "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.
      • 2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69:
        “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.
      1. (uncountable) Blackness.
        • 2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83:
          I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.
        • 2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN:
          “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.

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    Meronyms of chocolate (noun)

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    Adjective

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    chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)

    1. Made of or containing chocolate.
    2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
    3. (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
      • 2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29:
        She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
      • 2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27:
        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.
      • 2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200:
        If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?

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    Verb

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

    1. (transitive, rare, chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
    2. (rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the 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:
        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.
      • 2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843:
        It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
      • 2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73:
        The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.

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    Asturian

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    Noun

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    chocolate m (plural chocolates)

    1. alternative form of chicolate

    French

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    Verb

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    chocolate

    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of chocolater

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more information. First attested in 1697 in the form chicolate.

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    Noun

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    chocolate m (plural chocolates)

    1. chocolate
      Non quer tocar a gaita si non lle dan chocolate.
      He doesn't want to play the bagpipes if they don't give him chocolate.

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    Interlingua

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    Noun

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    chocolate (plural chocolates)

    1. chocolate

    Portuguese

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    Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia pt
    chocolate

    Etymology

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

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      Noun

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      chocolate m (plural chocolates)

      1. chocolate
        • 2009, Joan Vernikos, Thais Russomano, A gravidade, esta grande escultora: como usar a gravidade terrestre a seu favor, EDIPUCRS, →ISBN, page 131:
          O astronauta Jim Bagian, um chocólatra inveterado, conseguiu levar para dentro da Space Shuttle, durante o seu primeiro voo, uma barra de chocolate Mars.
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      2. candy
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      Spanish

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      Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia es
      chocolate

      Etymology

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        Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more information. First attested in the 1590s.

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /t͡ʃokoˈlate/ [t͡ʃo.koˈla.t̪e]
        • Audio (Colombia):(file)
        • Rhymes: -ate
        • Syllabification: cho‧co‧la‧te

        Noun

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        chocolate m (plural chocolates)

        1. chocolate (food made from cocoa beans) [from 16th c.]
        2. hot chocolate (drink made by dissolving chocolate in milk or water) [from 16th c.]
        3. (slang) hashish (the leaves of the Indian hemp plant) [from 20th c.]
          Synonym: hachís
        4. (Early Modern Spanish, now historical) an Aztec drink, chocolātl, made from roasted cacao powder and water
          • 1590, Ioſeph de Acoſta, “Del Cacao, y de la Coca [Of Cacao, and of Coke]” (chapter 22), in Historia natural y moral de las Indias  […]<t:Natural and moral history of the Indies  […]>‎[1], 1st edition, volume 4, Seville: Iuan de Leon, page 251:
            Y en fin es la beuida preciada, y con que cobidan a los ſeñores q̃ vienen, o paſſan por ſu tierra los Indios: y los Eſpañoles, y mas las Eſpañolas hechas a la tierra ſe muerẽ por el negro chocolate. Eſte ſobredicho chocolate dizen, q̃ hazen en diuerſas formas y tẽples, caliẽte, y freſco, y tẽplado.
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