gondola car

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

   Synonymsgondola

   Broaderfreight car

Questions about gondola car

What does gondola car mean?

gondola car means "a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof".

What is another word for gondola car?

Close synonyms include gondola. 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 car a common word?

gondola car is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.