CHOCOLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chocolate mean? 

• CHOCOLATE (noun)
  The noun CHOCOLATE has 3 senses:

1. a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

2. a food made from roasted ground cacao beans

3. a medium brown to dark-brown color

  Familiarity information: CHOCOLATE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOCOLATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chocolate; cocoa; drinking chocolate; hot chocolate

Hypernyms ("chocolate" is a kind of...):

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

Meronyms (substance of "chocolate"):

cocoa (powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A food made from roasted ground cacao beans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("chocolate" is a kind of...):

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Meronyms (substance of "chocolate"):

cacao bean; cocoa bean (seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chocolate"):

baking chocolate; bitter chocolate; cooking chocolate (pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy)

chocolate candy (candy made with chocolate)

chocolate liquor (the liquid or paste that is produced when cocoa beans are roasted and ground; the basis of all chocolate)

cocoa butter (the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate)

cocoa powder (the powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream)

bittersweet chocolate; dark chocolate; semi-sweet chocolate (chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added)

couverture (chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter)

milk chocolate (chocolate made from chocolate liquor with sugar and cocoa butter and powdered milk solids and vanilla and (usually) lecithin; the most common form of chocolate for eating; used in chocolate candy and baking and coatings)

white chocolate (a blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla; used in candy bars and baking and coatings; not technically chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A medium brown to dark-brown color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

burnt umber; chocolate; coffee; deep brown; umber

Hypernyms ("chocolate" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

 Context examples 

Instead, researchers look to see if factors linked to cancer change when chocolate is consumed.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

His friend and secretary, Mr. Lucas, is undoubtedly a foreigner, chocolate brown, wily, suave, and catlike, with a poisonous gentleness of speech.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall never find his match again either for chocolate or cravats.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It results in the development of blood filled ovarian cysts (chocolate cysts), and creation of scars and adhesions.

(Ovarian Endometriosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It comes in solid black, yellow, or chocolate.

(Labrador Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

Coat colors can include liver or chocolate.

(American Water Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

Caffeine is a bitter substance found in coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate, kola nuts, and certain medicines.

(Caffeine, Food and Drug Administration)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles chocolate.

(Chocolate Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Before I go on to another topic, I have another piece of chocolate for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)