fonda

¹ American  

[fawn-dah, fon-duh] / ˈfɔn dɑ, ˈfɒn də /

noun

Spanish.

PLURAL

fondas

1. an inn or restaurant.

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Fonda ² American  

[fon-duh] / ˈfɒn də /

noun

1. Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.

2. his daughter Jane, born 1937, U.S. actress.

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Fonda British  

/ ˈfɒndə /

noun

1. Henry . 1905–82, US film actor. His many films include Young Mr Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Twelve Angry Men (1957), and On Golden Pond (1981) for which he won an Oscar

2. his daughter Jane . born 1937, US film actress. Her films include Klute (1971) for which she won an Oscar, Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and Old Gringo (1989)

3. her brother, Peter . born 1939, US film actor, who made his name in Easy Rider (1969); later films include Ulee's Gold (1997) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

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Example Sentences

Cameron Winter, Palace Theatre, Dec. 13 & 14 He was just in Los Angeles for an extremely buzzed-about gig with his New York-based band Geese at the Fonda Theatre, where the crowd reportedly included Bono, Beck and Chappell Roan along with a bunch of record execs eager to start an old-fashioned indie-rock bidding war.

From Los Angeles Times

“Then I played the Fonda and then the Wiltern again. And then I went to the … the Greek! Went to the Greek, of course — that was the best night ever.”

From Los Angeles Times

But there’s so much skill in the performances and imagination in her arrangements that they may well get Isella — who plays the Fonda Theater on Nov. 16 — onto much bigger stages of her own, just as the world gets much bleaker around her.

From Los Angeles Times

It was made into a movie starring Henry Fonda, provoking a backlash from agribusinesses and politicians, who accused Steinbeck of exaggeration or promoting socialism.

From The Wall Street Journal

In October, more than 550 artists and entertainers, led by Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda, revived the Committee for the First Amendment, a group originally formed during the McCarthy era to oppose government censorship and political blacklists.

From Salon