hot chocolate
noun, verb
hot chocolate is a noun meaning “A warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-T-C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E. The plural of hot chocolate is hot chocolates.
What does hot chocolate mean?
noun
- 1
A warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.
My mom drinks hot chocolate before bed.
- 2
A serving of this beverage.
Could I get a hot chocolate with my toast?
- 3
A powder usually made from cocoa, sugar, and other ingredients, used to prepare this beverage.
She likes to sprinkle hot chocolate on her ice cream.
verb
- 1
informalTo consume hot chocolate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hot chocolate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hot_chocolate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hot chocolate
- hot chocolates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- hot chocolating participle, present
- hot chocolated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hot chocolate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense beverage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chocolat chaud |
| German | Kakao, heiße Schokolade |
| Portuguese | chocolate quente |
| Spanish | chocolate caliente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.