gondola.
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
Meaning & usage
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
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.
A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo. The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
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.
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.
A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoƚa. Possibly from Byzantine Greek κοντοῦρα (kontoûra, “cutter, kind of ship”).
To travel by gondola.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetan góndoƚa. Possibly from Byzantine Greek κοντοῦρα (kontoûra, “cutter, kind of ship”).
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