[ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a food in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened and eaten as confectionery
(e.g: a bar of chocolate)


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Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘a drink made with chocolate’): from French chocolat or Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl chocolatl ‘food made from cacao seeds’, influenced by unrelated cacaua-atl ‘drink made from cacao’