{
    "term": "chocolate",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a hard brown sweet food made from cocoa beans, used in cooking to add taste to cakes, etc. or eaten as a sweet",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **chocolate bar**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**chocolate chip** cookies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **chocolate cake**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chocolate factory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bar/piece of chocolate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "strawberries dipped in chocolate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He broke off a few squares of chocolate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She broke a bar of chocolate into four pieces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stir until the chocolate has melted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dark", "plain", "unsweetened"],
                "… of chocolate": ["bar", "slab", "bit"],
                "verb + chocolate": ["break", "break up", "grate"],
                "chocolate + verb": ["melt"],
                "chocolate + noun": ["bar", "chip", "chunk"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a sweet that is made of or covered with chocolate",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Would you like another chocolate?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["soft-centred", "handmade"],
                "… of chocolates": ["box"],
                "chocolate + noun": ["box"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a drink made by mixing chocolate powder with hot water or milk; a cup of this drink",
            "labels": "(British English)British and North American English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was curled up on the sofa with a steaming mug of chocolate."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["hot", "steaming", "drinking"],
                "… of chocolate": ["cup", "mug"],
                "verb + chocolate": ["drink", "sip"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a dark brown colour",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃɒklət/",
                "audio": "ch/chocolate/chocolate__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃɔːklət/",
                "audio": "ch/chocolate/chocolate__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (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’."
}