hangar

[ hang-er ]

/ ˈhæŋ ər /

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noun

a shed or shelter.

any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.

verb (used with or without object)

to keep (an aircraft) in a hangar: She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.

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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 (see hamlet¹) + gardyard²

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH hangar

hangar , hanger

Words nearby hangar

Han Fei Zu, Hanford, hang, hang about, hang a left, hangar, hang around, hang back, hang behind, hangbird, hang by a thread

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How to use hangar in a sentence

The single moment from her Hannity interview that attracted the most attention was when she lamented the sorry state of affairs in California — as evidenced by the complaints of the guy who owned the airline hangar next to hers.
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It was a modest aircraft hangar size, and there were machines and wires all over the place.
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The executive has been known to give young engineers tremendous responsibility to solve problems, leaving them overnight in airplane hangars, for example, to tackle a complex technical challenge on a rocket.
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I walked across the runway to the large hangar we were housed in.
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We spent one more night in the hangar and then we flew back.
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It would not only save fuel and money but keep those scarce, high-demand aircraft in the air rather than the hangar.
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He lives in Building 5, a white structure whose exterior suggests an airplane hangar.
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Sharples was brought on after Frank Gehry's replacement Ellerbe Becket's designs were compared to an airplane hangar.
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And it flashed back in crimson splendor from the gleaming hull that floated from the hangar and came to rest upon the snowy world.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
The morning mail lay before him on the table in the little hangar office.
The Flying Reporter|Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
He hung up the telephone receiver and skipped out into the hangar to start his engine to warming.
The Flying Reporter|Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
Johnnie didnt know what was wrong, and of course he didnt make inquiries in a rivals hangar.
The Flying Reporter|Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
The Hangar was also used as a store for many articles which had been crowded into odd corners or rescued from the snow outside.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson

British Dictionary definitions for hangar

hangar

/ (ˈhæŋə) /

noun

a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft

Word Origin for hangar

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

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