gondola

Meaning of gondola

noun

a light flat-bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern.
the seating compartment in a ski lift.
an open railway freight wagon.
a free-standing block of shelves used to display goods in a supermarket.

mid 16th century: from Venetian Italian, from Rhaeto-Romance gondolà ‘to rock, roll’.

Information about gondola

It is a name.
The plural form of gondola is: gondolas.
Languages in which gondola is used:
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- English
- Italian

Hyphenation of gondola

gon-dola

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
gondola is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

gondola synonyms

Meaning car:

Translation of gondola

French: gondole
Italian: gondola
Portuguese: gôndola
Spanish: góndola
German: Gondel

Anagrams of gondola

algodon, Dongola, dongola, lagodon

Words that rhyme with gondola

Dola, dola, Idola, eidola, idola, Ndola, farandola, girandola, mandola

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