gondola
IPA: gˈɑndʌɫʌ
noun
- 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.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
- (rail transport, US) 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.
verb
- To travel by gondola.
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Examples of "gondola" in Sentences
- An eight passenger gondola on Mt.
- A large swinging gondola attraction.
- The inset shows detail of the gondola.
- It is the last station of the gondola lift.
- Gondola needs additions to explain all this.
- For safety, the gondola is covered with a net.
- The gondola stopped, the old palace was there .
- It was six in the morning and they escaped by gondola.
- A gondola, also of aluminium, was fixed to the framework.
- The balloon disintegrated and the gondola fell to the ground.
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