gondola

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgondola car

   Broaderfreight car
2. 2.

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

   Broaderboat
3. 3.

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

   Synonymscar

   Broadercompartment

   Part ofairship

Other forms of gondola

plural

gondolas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gondola

What does gondola mean?

gondola means "a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gondola?

gondola has 3 syllables: gon-do-la. The stress falls on "gon". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑndələ/.

What is another word for gondola?

Close synonyms include gondola car, car. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gondola a common word?

gondola is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.