hangar

[ hang-er ]
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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.

Origin of hangar

1
1850–55; <French: shed, hangar, Middle French, probably <Old Low Franconian *haimgard fence around a group of buildings, equivalent to haim small village (see hamlet1) + gardyard2

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hangar

/ (ˈhæŋə) /


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

Origin of hangar

1
C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin

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