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gondola

noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɡɒn.də.lə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: G AA1 N D AH0 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: G AA0 N D OW1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.

That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gondola car

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: freight car, goods wagon

7

noun

Meaning 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.

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To travel by gondola.

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9

noun

Meaning 9

the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: car

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: compartment

10

noun

Meaning 10

long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: boat

11

noun

Meaning 11

a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gondola car

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: freight car

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoƚa. Possibly from Byzantine Greek κοντοῦρα (kontoûra, “cutter, kind of ship”).

Across languages

Translations

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: gondolë — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Arabic: غندول — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Arabic: جندول — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Arabic: قُنْدول (gundōl) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Armenian: գոնդոլ (gondol) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Asturian: góndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Azerbaijani: qondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Basque: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Belarusian: гандола (handóla) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Bulgarian: гондо́ла (gondóla) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Burmese: ဂွန်ဒိုလာ (gwanduila) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Catalan: góndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貢多拉 /贡多拉 (gòngduōlā) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 剛朵拉 /刚朵拉 (gāngduǒlā) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 共渡樂 /共渡乐 (gòngdùlè) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Corsican: gondula — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Czech: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Danish: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Dutch: gondel — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Esperanto: gondolo — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Estonian: gondel — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Finnish: gondoli — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • French: gondole — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Galician: góndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Georgian: გონდოლა (gondola) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • German: Gondel — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Greek: γόνδολα (góndola) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Hebrew: גונדולה — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Hindi: गोंडोला (goṇḍolā) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Hungarian: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Ido: gondolo — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Indonesian: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Italian: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Japanese: ゴンドラ (gondora) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Korean: 곤돌라 (gondolla) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Lithuanian: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Lombard: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Macedonian: го́ндола (góndola) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Persian: گوندولا (gondolâ) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Polish: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Portuguese: gôndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Romanian: gondolă — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Russian: гондо́ла (gondóla) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Serbo-Croatian: го̑ндола — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Serbo-Croatian: gȏndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Slovak: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Slovene: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Spanish: góndola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Swedish: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Tagalog: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Tamil: கொண்டோலா (koṇṭōlā) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Telugu: గాండల (gāṇḍala) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Thai: เรือกอนโดลา (reua gondohlaa) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Turkish: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Ottoman Turkish: غوندول (gondol) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Ukrainian: гондола (hondola) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Uzbek: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Venetan: góndoła — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Venetan: góndoƚa — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Vietnamese: thuyền gonđon — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Vietnamese: gonđon — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Volapük: gondol — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Welsh: gondola — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Yiddish: גאָנדאָלע (gondole) — narrow boat, especially in Venice
  • Bulgarian: гондо́ла (gondóla) — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Dutch: kabelbaan — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Dutch: gondellift — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Dutch: zweefbaan — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • French: téléphérique — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • French: télécabine — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • German: Seilbahn — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Indonesian: gondola — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Macedonian: го́ндола (góndola) — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gondol — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gondol — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Polish: gondola — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Russian: гондола (gondola) — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Spanish: teleférico — enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
  • Bulgarian: гондо́ла (gondóla) — car or basket of an airship
  • Czech: gondola — car or basket of an airship
  • Dutch: gondel — car or basket of an airship
  • Finnish: gondoli — car or basket of an airship
  • French: nacelle — car or basket of an airship
  • Indonesian: gondola — car or basket of an airship
  • Macedonian: го́ндола (góndola) — car or basket of an airship
  • Macedonian: кош (koš) — car or basket of an airship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gondol — car or basket of an airship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gondol — car or basket of an airship
  • Polish: gondola — car or basket of an airship
  • Spanish: barquilla — car or basket of an airship
  • Finnish: gondoli — part of a transporter bridge that carries
  • French: nacelle — part of a transporter bridge that carries
  • French: transbordeur — part of a transporter bridge that carries
  • Finnish: vaunu — hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building
  • French: échafaudage suspendu — hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building
  • French: échafaud volant — hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building
  • Bulgarian: гондо́ла (gondóla) — free-standing display unit
  • Catalan: góndola — free-standing display unit
  • French: gondole — free-standing display unit
  • Hungarian: gondola — free-standing display unit
  • Italian: testata di gondola — free-standing display unit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gondol — free-standing display unit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gondol — free-standing display unit
  • Spanish: góndola — free-standing display unit
  • Turkish: gondol — free-standing display unit