chocolate

Universal Words noun 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