cocoa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

   Do you like cocoa?

2. 2
   noun

   A serving of this drink.

   I like to watch TV with a cocoa.

3. 3
   noun

   powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed

4. 4
   noun

   a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar

5. 5
   noun

   The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

6. 6
   noun

   An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

7. 7
   noun

   A light to medium brown colour.

8. 8
   adj

   Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Etymology

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.