hangar

American  

[hang-er] / ˈhæŋ ər /

noun

1. a shed or shelter.

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

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verb (used with or without object)

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

   She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.

hangar British  

/ ˈhæŋə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of hangar

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

Example Sentences

Sailors in the Truman’s hangar bay were working before dawn to get aircraft in position for the next day’s mission, when the carrier detected an inbound ballistic missile.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ministers said the subsidy would support new maintenance facilities, hangars and cargo capacity.

From BBC

It’s just a large meadow, with a hangar to one side.

From Literature

Inside a cavernous shipbuilding hangar, workers cut and weld steel for the yard's latest icebreaker, a heavy-duty Arctic vessel, called Polarmax that's destined for the Canadian coastguard.

From BBC

He booked a room with a view of the hangar and photographed a new aircraft Joby was testing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• garage
• shed
• shelter