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choc·o·late / ˈchäk(ə)lit; ˈchôk-/ • n. a food preparation in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened. ∎  a candy made of or covered with this: a box of chocolates. ∎  a drink made by mixing milk with chocolate: sipping on hot chocolate. ∎  a deep brown color: [as adj.] huge spiders, yellow and chocolate brown. DERIVATIVES: choc·o·lat·y (also choc·o·lat·ey) adj.ORIGIN: early 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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