gondola

Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoƚa, from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “cutter, kind of ship”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒn.də.lə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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gondola (plural gondolas or gondole)

2. A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
4. A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
   2. An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
   4. The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
   6. The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
   8. That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
6. (rail transport, US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.

   Synonym: gondola car

   Hypernyms: freight car, goods wagon

   Coordinate term: hopper car

   • 1948, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in A Russian Journal, page 118:

     The railroad track paralleled the road, and along the track we saw lines of burned-out gondolas and freight cars which had been fired and destroyed during the war.

7. A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; An end bay; A parasite display.

• (rail transport): gondola car, gon
• (ski lift): cable car

• gondola lift

• gondolier

gondola (third-person singular simple present gondolas, present participle gondolaing, simple past and past participle gondolaed)

1. To travel by gondola.

• a Venetian gondola
• a rail transport gondola wagon
• a modern airship gondola
• a transporter bridge gondola
• a ski lift gondola
• a window cleaners' gondola

• gondola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Dongola

Borrowed from Italian gondola.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡondola]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Hyphenation: gon‧do‧la

gondola f (diminutive gondolka)

1. gondola (narrow boat, especially in Venice)
2. gondola (car or basket of an airship)
3. (aviation) nacelle (separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine)

• “gondola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “gondola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “gondola”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “gondola”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ̃.dɔ.la/

gondola

1. third-person singular past historic of gondoler

Borrowed from Italian gondola. First attested in 1612.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡondolɒ]
• Hyphenation: gon‧do‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

gondola (plural gondolák)

1. gondola (a small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice)

• gondola in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from Venetan góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡon.do.la/
• Rhymes: -ondola
• Hyphenation: gón‧do‧la

gondola f (plural gondole)

1. gondola (narrow boat in Venice)
2. nacelle (aircraft engine)
3. pod

• dolgano

Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔnˈdɔ.la/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: gon‧do‧la

gondola f (diminutive gondolka)

1. gondola (narrow boat, especially in Venice)
2. gondola (enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain)
3. gondola (car or basket of an airship)

• gondola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gondola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔndɔla]

gondola f (diminutive gondolka)

1. gondola

• “gondola”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025