hot chocolateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

hot chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural hot chocolates)

1. (uncountable) A warm beverage usually made of cocoa and water or milk, often drunk during cold weather.

   Synonyms: cocoa, hot cocoa

   Coordinate terms: chocolate tea, cocoa tea

   My mom drinks hot chocolate before bed.

2. (countable) A serving of this beverage.

   Could I get a hot chocolate with my toast?

3. (uncountable) 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.

派生した語

• → Iranian Persian: هات چاکْلِت (hât čâklet)

動詞

hot chocolate (third-person singular simple present hot chocolates, present participle hot chocolating, simple past and past participle hot chocolated)

1. (intransitive, informal) To consume hot chocolate.
   • 2006, Sean Burn, Edgecities, page 71:

     […] butter & toast & warm towels after bath & lying in bed in laughter, snuggling & hot chocolating. love.

   • 2010, Robin Anderson, La Di Da Di Bloody Da!', page 195:

     “Well, while you and Denise are hot chocolating, I shall be finalizing next week's arrangements,” said Svetlana haughtily.

   • 2021 July 5, Heidi Steltzer, “Amid historic heat, a climate scientist’s mountain love story (commentary)”, in Mongabay:

     They’d driven up while we’d been hot and stayed a bit longer up high.