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chocolate

UK/ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/US/ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
nounA1Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,114 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: chocolates

Chocolate is a sweet brown food made from cocoa. A bar of chocolate, dark chocolate, hot chocolate.

It is made from fermented, roasted and ground cacao beans, and the percentage on a dark bar is how much of it comes from the bean rather than from sugar. White chocolate contains cocoa butter but no cocoa solids, which is why some people argue it is not chocolate at all. Cacao was drunk unsweetened in Mesoamerica for centuries before Europeans added sugar.

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Definitions of chocolate

  1. 1nounchocolateA sweet brown food made from cocoa.A1

    “The bar is about seventy per cent chocolate solids.”

chocolate is a food.

Where it comes from

Spanish chocolate came from Nahuatl, and the exact form and meaning are disputed. The drink reached Europe in the sixteenth century and the solid bar only in the nineteenth.

  1. Spanish

    chocolate

  2. English, today

    chocolate

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate. Spanish chocolate, from nci chocolātl, of unknown origin. See that entry for more information.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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chocolate in the wild

  • Making chocolate with only cocoa butter and milk produces white chocolate.

    Chocolate

  • Chocolate bars, either made of solid chocolate or other ingredients coated in chocolate, are eaten as snacks.

    Chocolate

  • Cadbury was founded in 1824 in Birmingham, England, by John Cadbury, a Quaker who sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate.

    Cadbury

  • Dairy Milk chocolate, introduced by George Jr in 1905, used a higher proportion of milk in the recipe than rival products.

    Cadbury

  • Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes.

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.