1. a food preparation in the form of a paste or solid block made from roasted and ground cacao seeds, typically sweetened: "a bar of chocolate"
▪ a candy made of or covered with chocolate: "a box of chocolates"
▪ hot chocolate: "I drink chocolate because it is so soothing"
▪ a deep brown color:"huge spiders, yellow and chocolate brown"
Word Originearly 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’.