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hot-CHOKL-uh-t/ˌhɒt ˈtʃɒklət/

Hot chocolate is a hot sweet drink made from chocolate and milk. Uncountable as the drink: some hot chocolate; countable as a serving: a hot chocolate. Coffee is bitter; tea is different; a chocolate bar is solid. Two words: hot chocolate. Cocoa is a similar later word.

Meaning

A hot sweet drink made from chocolate and milk.

Examples

• “Would you like a cup of hot chocolate?”
• “I always have hot chocolate in winter.”
• “This hot chocolate is too sweet for me.”

Good to know

two words: hot chocolate. a hot chocolate = one cup. Contrast: coffee, tea, chocolate bar.

Near in meaning

cocoa

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