Synonyms for gondola
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gon-dl-uh or especially for 1, gon-doh-luh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɒn dl ə or especially for 1, gɒnˈdoʊ lə |
Top 10 synonyms for gondola Other synonyms for the word gondola
Définition of gondola
Origin :- 1540s, from Italian (Venetian) gondola, earlier in English as goundel, from Old Italian gondula, of unknown origin; perhaps from Rhaeto-Romanic dialectal gondola "roll, rock," or perhaps a diminutive of gonda, name of a kind of boat. Meaning "cabin of an airship" is 1896, though it was used hypothetically in 1881 in a prediction piece titled "300 Years Hence":
- You step into an aerial gondola ... and are at once borne upwards.
- As in boat : noun vehicle for water travel
- As in tram : noun trolley
- There you will get into the gondola, and say to the gondolier these words: 'To the casino.'
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- I persuade the young countess to follow me, and we take a gondola.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- After a very good supper I took a gondola to return to Muran.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- She will name her own hour, and you will accompany her here in her gondola.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- He had forgotten that the Campo was to be entered from two ways, by gondola and by foot.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- That was the way she oftenest spoke of it, and other times it was the gondola.
- Extract from : « The Lovely Lady » by Mary Austin
- The two men used all their strength to detach the gondola from the shore.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 » by Various
- His gondola was in attendance, covered with the felze, to take us to the house of the sposa.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- The sposo had successfully handed the bridesmaid into the second gondola.
- Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds
- We went into a gondola, and the guards rowed us towards Fusina.
- Extract from : « My Ten Years' Imprisonment » by Silvio Pellico
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