chocolate

Chocolate is a very popular treat.

(chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 168:

(chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.

chocolate:

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

(countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.

"I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.

1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73:

I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.

2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83:

“How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.

2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69:

“Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.

2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN:

(countable, slang) A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

en-noun

chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)

→ Assamese: চক্লেট (soklet)

→ Bengali: চকলেট (cokoleṭ)

→ Burmese: ချောကလက် (hkyau:ka.lak)

→ Cantonese: 朱古力 (zyu¹ gu²⁻¹ lik⁶⁻¹)

→ Hakka: 朱古力

→ Teochew: 朱古力

→ Cebuano: tsokoleyt

→ Chickasaw: chaklit

→ Gujarati: ચોકલેટ (cokleṭ)

→ Hawaiian: kokoleka

→ Hindustani:

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→ Hindi: चॉकलेट (cŏkleṭ, cŏkaleṭ), चाकलेट (cākleṭ)

→ Urdu: چاکلیٹ (cāklēṭ)

→ Urdu: چاکلیٹ (cāklēṭ)

→ Irish: seacláid

→ Japanese: チョコレート (chokorēto), チョコ (choko)

→ Taiwanese Hokkien: chio͘-kó͘-lè-tò͘

→ Kannada: ಚಾಕೋಲೆಟ್ (cākōleṭ)

→ Korean: 초콜릿 (chokollit)

→ Malay: coklat

→? Hokkien: 芝居力

→ Malayalam: ചോക്കലേറ്റ് (cōkkalēṟṟŭ)

→ Malayalam: ചോക്കലേറ്റ് (cōkkalēṟṟŭ)

→ Manx: shocklaid

→ Marathi: चॉकलेट (cŏkleṭ)

→ Nepali: चकलेट (cakleṭ)

→ Pashto: چاکلېټ (čākléṭ)

→ Pashto: چاکلېټ (čākléṭ)

→ Persian: چاکلیت (čâklêt) (Dari)

→ Punjabi:

→ Gurmukhi script: ਚੌਕਲੇਟ (caukleṭ)

→ Shahmukhi script: چاکلیٹ (caukleṭ)

→ Scottish Gaelic: teòclaid

→ Shanghainese: 巧克力 (⁵chiau-kheq-liq; ¹chiau-kheq-liq)

→ Mandarin: 巧克力 (qiǎokèlì)

→ Hakka: 巧克力

→ Sindhi: چاڪليٽ

→ Sindhi: چاڪليٽ

→ Sinhalese: චොකලට් (cokalaṭ)

→ Swahili: chokoleti

→ Tamil: சாக்கலேட் (cākkalēṭ)

→ Tamil: சாக்கலேட் (cākkalēṭ)

→ Telugu: చాకొలెట్ (cākoleṭ)

→ Thai: ช็อกโกแลต (chɔ́k-goo-lɛ́t), ช็อกโกเลต (chɔ́k-goo-lét)

→ Welsh: siocled

巧克力

chhiàu-kher-lí / chhiàu-khér-lí / chhiàu-kho-lí

sjokolade

Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl word, widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate. Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).


chocolate

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.

2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29:

Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.

2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27:

If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?

2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200:

(slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

en-adj

chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)

more chocolate (comparative)
most chocolate (superlative)


chocolate

(transitive, rare, chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.

1992 August 20, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917:

It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.

2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843:

The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.

2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73:

(rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

en-verb

chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)

chocolates (present singular third-person)
chocolating (participle present)
chocolated (participle past)
chocolated (past)