- [uncountable] a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans, used in cooking to add taste to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet
- a chocolate bar
- chocolate chip cookies
- a chocolate cake
- a chocolate factory
- a bar/piece of chocolate
- strawberries dipped in chocolate
Extra Examples- He broke off a few squares of chocolate.
- Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water.
- She broke a bar of chocolate into four pieces.
- Stir until the chocolate has melted.
- a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- plain
- unsweetened
- …
- bar
- slab
- bit
- …
- break
- break up
- grate
- …
- melt
- bar
- chip
- chunk
- …
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- [countable] a sweet that is made of or covered with chocolate
- I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates.
- Would you like another chocolate?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- soft-centred
- handmade
- box
- box
- [uncountable, countable] (British English) (also hot chocolate British and North American English)a drink made by mixing chocolate powder with hot water or milk; a cup of this drink
- I was curled up on the sofa with a steaming mug of chocolate.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hot
- steaming
- drinking
- …
- cup
- mug
- drink
- sip
- [uncountable] a dark brown colourTopics Colours and Shapesb2
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’.
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chocolate