gondola

See also: góndola, gôndola, and góndoła

English

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gondola

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒn.də.lə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.
   1. An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
   2. The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
   3. The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
   4. 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• gondola lift

Related terms

• gondolier

Translations

narrow boat, especially in Venice

Albanian: gondolë (sq) f Arabic: غندول m, جندول m Hijazi Arabic: قُنْدول m (gundōl) Armenian: գոնդոլ (hy) (gondol) Asturian: góndola f Azerbaijani: qondola Basque: gondola Belarusian: гандола f (handóla) Bulgarian: гондола f (gondola) Burmese: ဂွန်ဒိုလာ (gwanduila) Catalan: góndola f Chinese: Mandarin: 貢多拉 / 贡多拉 (zh) (gòngduōlā), 剛朵拉 / 刚朵拉 (gāngduǒlā), 共渡樂 / 共渡乐 (gòngdùlè) Corsican: gondula f Czech: gondola (cs) f Danish: gondol (da) c Dutch: gondel (nl) f or m Esperanto: gondolo Estonian: gondel Finnish: gondoli (fi) French: gondole (fr) f Galician: góndola f Georgian: გონდოლა (gondola) German: Gondel (de) f Greek: γόνδολα (el) f (góndola) Hebrew: גונדולה (he) f Hindi: गोंडोला f (goṇḍolā) Hungarian: gondola (hu) Ido: gondolo (io) Indonesian: gondola (id) Italian: gondola (it) f Japanese: ゴンドラ (ja) (gondora) Korean: 곤돌라 (ko) (gondolla) Lithuanian: gondola Lombard: gondola (lmo) f Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: gondel Macedonian: го́ндола f (góndola) Norwegian: Bokmål: gondol m Nynorsk: gondol m Ottoman Turkish: غوندول (gondol) Persian: گوندولا (gondolâ) Polish: gondola (pl) f Portuguese: gôndola (pt) f Romanian: gondolă (ro) f Russian: гондо́ла (ru) f (gondóla) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: го̑ндола f Roman: gȏndola (sh) f Slovak: gondola f Slovene: gondola f Spanish: góndola (es) f Swedish: gondol (sv) c Tagalog: gondola Tamil: கொண்டோலா (koṇṭōlā) Telugu: గాండల (gāṇḍala) Thai: เรือกอนโดลา (reua gondohlaa) Turkish: gondol (tr) Ukrainian: гондола f (hondola) Uzbek: gondola (uz) Venetan: góndoła f, góndoƚa f Vietnamese: thuyền gonđon, gonđon Volapük: gondol (vo) Welsh: gondola Yiddish: גאָנדאָלע f (gondole)

enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels

Dutch: kabelbaan (nl) f, gondellift (nl) m, zweefbaan (nl) f French: téléphérique (fr) m, télécabine (fr) f German: Seilbahn (de) f Macedonian: го́ндола f (góndola) Norwegian: Bokmål: gondol m Nynorsk: gondol m Polish: gondola (pl) f Russian: гондола (ru) f (gondola) Spanish: teleférico (es) m

car or basket of an airship

Czech: gondola (cs) f Dutch: gondel (nl) m or f Finnish: gondoli (fi) French: nacelle (fr) f Macedonian: го́ндола f (góndola), кош (mk) m (koš) Norwegian: Bokmål: gondol m Nynorsk: gondol m Polish: gondola (pl) f Spanish: barquilla f

part of a transporter bridge that carries

Finnish: gondoli (fi) French: nacelle (fr) f, transbordeur (fr) m

hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building

Finnish: vaunu (fi) French: échafaudage suspendu m, échafaud volant m

shelving unit

Norwegian: Bokmål: gondol m Nynorsk: gondol m

Verb

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

1. To travel by gondola.

Gallery

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

Further reading

• gondola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dongola

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

gondola

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gondola.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Declension of gondola (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	gondola	gondoly
genitive	gondoly	gondol
dative	gondole	gondolám
accusative	gondolu	gondoly
vocative	gondolo	gondoly
locative	gondole	gondolách
instrumental	gondolou	gondolami

Related terms

• gondoliér m anim

Further reading

• “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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ̃.dɔ.la/

Verb

gondola

1. third-person singular past historic of gondoler