Definition of gondolas Gondolas

/gɑˈndʌlʌz/ - [ganduluz] -

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Noun Plural: gondolas
gondola - long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice
gondola - the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
		car
		compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
gondola - a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof
		gondola car

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gondola (Noun)
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
gondola (Noun)
A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
gondola (Noun)
An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift ; a cable car .
gondola (Noun)
The car or basket of a hot-air balloon , airship, zeppelin, etc.
gondola (Noun)
The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
gondola (Noun)
That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
gondola (Noun)
A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
gondola (Noun)
A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket.

gondola (n.)
A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
gondola (n.)
A flat-bottomed boat for freight.
gondola (n.)
A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads.

gondola
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled by a single oar.

gondola
gon′do-la, n. a long, narrow boat (averaging 30 feet by 4) used chiefly on the canals of Venice—(Spens.) Gon′delay.—n. Gondolier (gon′dol-ēr), one who rows a gondola. [It., a dim. of gonda—Gr. kondy—a drinking-vessel, said to be a Pers. word.]

gondola
a sort of barge, curiously ornamented, and navigated on the canals of Venice; also a passage-boat of six or eight oars, in other parts of the coast of Italy.

gondola
A light pleasure-barge universally used on the canals of Venice, generally propelled by one man standing on the stern with one powerful oar, though the larger kinds have more rowers. The middle-sized gondolas are upwards of 30 feet long and 4 broad, with a well furnished cabin amidships, though exclusively black as restricted by law. They always rise at each end to a very sharp point of about the height of a man's breast. The stem is always surmounted by the ferro, a bright iron beak or cleaver of one uniform shape, seemingly derived from the ancient Romans, being the "rostrisque tridentibus" of Virgil, as may be seen in many of Hadrian's large brass medals. The form of the gondola in the water is traced back till its origin is lost in antiquity, yet (like that of the Turkish caïques) embodies the principles of the wave-line theory, the latest effort of modern ship-building science. Also, a passage-boat of six or eight oars, used on other parts of the coast of Italy.

gondola
A pleasure craft which plies in Venice, at World's Fairs and other popular watering places. From Eng. gone, and Lat. dolor, sadness, or Eng. dollar. Sadness gone; also, a gone dollar.