1 [U] a hard brown sweet food made from COCOA beans, used in cooking to add flavour to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet/candy:
a bar / piece of chocolate * a chocolate cake * a chocolate factory
seealsoMILKCHOCOLATE, PLAINCHOCOLATE
2 [C] a sweet/candy that is made of or covered with chocolate:
a box of chocolates
3 [U,C] (BrE) = HOTCHOCOLATE:
a mug of drinking chocolate
compareCOCOA
4 [U] a dark brown colour
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