HOW TO PRONOUNCE
chocolate
/ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
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The middle vowel can be absent.
Stress the first syllable and use ch as in chair. The middle vowel can disappear; the ending does not sound like late.
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“A piece of chocolate.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does chocolate mean?
noun
- A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (slang) A black person.
- (slang) Blackness.
adjective
- Made of or containing chocolate.
- Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
- (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
verb
- (rare) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
- (rare) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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I put a book near the matches on one side, and a book under the box of chocolate drops on the other.
At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray and opened the shutters.
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“And open your mouth, and see what God sends you,” he continued, suiting action to words, and expecting a piece of chocolate.
These tomes resemble nothing so much as sticks of chocolate, and, however useful they may be to the student, the clay MSS.
It bears the name of Cacao de macaco, or monkey’s chocolate, but the seeds are smaller than those of the common cacao.