hangar

[hang-er]

noun

1. a shed or shelter.

2. any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to keep (an aircraft) in a hangar.

   She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.

hangar

/ ˈhæŋə /

noun

1. a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft

Word History and Origins

Origin of hangar¹

1850–55; < French: shed, hangar, Middle French, probably < Old Low Franconian *haimgard fence around a group of buildings, equivalent to haim small village ( hamlet ¹ ) + gard yard ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of hangar¹

C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Ahmed said the Wagner men, who spoke through an interpreter, then took him to a well-fortified Malian military base, and put him in a hangar.

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In 1971, he moved his family to the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, where his home was adjacent to a runway and he had a hangar to store his planes.

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The lake is filled with water collected from the roof of an old aircraft hangar and pumped from two boreholes.

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After tossing and turning on a cot in a hangar, Powers rolled out of bed at 2:00 a.m. on May 1, 1960.

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He and his family settled in a small room with bunk beds and a TV, one of many rooms in a large hangar in the sweltering desert.

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Related Words

• garage 
• shed 
• shelter