Definitions for gondola

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gondola gon·do·la

Spelling: [gon-dl-uh or especially for 1, gon-doh-l

IPA: /ˈgɒn dl ə or especially for 1, gɒnˈdoʊ lə/

Gondola is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in gondola (adglnoo).

Definitions for gondola

noun

1. a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat having a tall, ornamental stem and stern and sometimes a small cabin for passengers, rowed or poled by a single person who stands at the stern, facing forward: used especially on the canals of Venice, Italy.
2. a passenger compartment suspended beneath a balloon or airship. Compare car1 (def 4).
3. an enclosed cabin suspended from an overhead cable, used to transport passengers up and down a ski slope or over scenic or treacherous terrain.
4. Also called gondola car. an open railroad freight car with low sides, for transporting bulk freight and manufactured goods.
5. a truck whose bed or trailer is a hopper, as for transporting mixed cement.
6. a freestanding structure for displaying merchandise in a retail establishment, as a supermarket.
7. a chair or couch having a gondola back.

Origin of gondola

1540-50; Italian Venetian, probably Medieval Greek kontoúra small boat used in coastal navigation, noun use of feminine of kóntouros short, clipped, literally, dock-tailed, equivalent to Late

Examples for gondola

She will name her own hour, and you will accompany her here in her gondola.

The two men used all their strength to detach the gondola from the shore.

We went into a gondola, and the guards rowed us towards Fusina.

The sposo had successfully handed the bridesmaid into the second gondola.

He had forgotten that the Campo was to be entered from two ways, by gondola and by foot.

After a very good supper I took a gondola to return to Muran.

His gondola was in attendance, covered with the felze, to take us to the house of the sposa.

That was the way she oftenest spoke of it, and other times it was the gondola.

There you will get into the gondola, and say to the gondolier these words: 'To the casino.'

I persuade the young countess to follow me, and we take a gondola.