cocoa

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points: 9
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 5

Pronunciation

/ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/

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/ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ · /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/(US) · /koˈkoʊ.ɐ/

Definition of cocoa

10 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
(countable, uncountable)An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
(uncountable)A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

“Do you like cocoa?”
“Half past nine - high time for supper; Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear. Helen thinks it quite delicious, John prefers it now to beer.... ¶For they've stumbled on the secret Of a love that never wanes, Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes, Cocoa coursing through their veins.”
(countable)A serving of this drink.

“I like to watch TV with a cocoa.”
(countable)A light to medium brown colour.
(alt-of, alternative, nonstandard)Alternative spelling of coco.

adj

(not-comparable)Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

name

an object-oriented programming API for macOS
(rare)A unisex given name.
A city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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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.