chocolate
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A sweet brown food made from cocoa beans and sugar, sold in bars and also used in baking.
This cake has a thick layer of dark chocolate on top.
Chocolate melts fast if you leave it near the radiator.
White chocolate is much sweeter than the dark kind.
We broke the bar of chocolate into six equal pieces.
Common collocations: dark chocolate · milk chocolate · white chocolate · a bar of chocolate · melted chocolate · chocolate cake
Part of: Sweets
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- A2
One small sweet made of this food or covered with it, often with something soft inside.
She passed the box around and I chose two chocolates.
Only one chocolate was left and nobody dared to take it.
My grandmother keeps chocolates in a tin beside her armchair.
Common collocations: a box of chocolates · a handmade chocolate · dark chocolates · eat a chocolate
Part of: Sweets
Forms
- plural
- chocolates