gondola

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.