hangar

[hang-er]

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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.

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) + gard yard²

Can be confusedhangar hanger

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Related Words for hangar

shelter, garage, shed, barracks

Examples from the Web for hangar

Contemporary Examples of hangar

We spent one more night in the hangar and then we flew back.
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Elliot Ackerman
November 16, 2014
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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October 27, 2014
And so on April 29, as the jury handed down acquittals, Tur was in his hangar at the Santa Monica airport, ready to go.
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Matthew DeLuca
April 27, 2012
The weather that June 2003 day was hot—140 degrees—and about 6,000 troops had packed into a hangar to see the visitors.
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Laura Colarusso
October 6, 2011

Historical Examples of hangar

"Bounce our bombs right into the open end of the hangar," Stan said, grinning.
A Yankee Flier Over Berlin
Al Avery
"Must leave for the hangar at once," declared Hart, returning from the telephone.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930
Various
The last words were lost in an explosion which seemed to lift the roof off the hangar.
Fort Amity
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Meanwhile Kennedy took charge of the hangar where the injured machine was.
The Silent Bullet
Arthur B. Reeve
"I'm glad to say you had no confederate in the hangar here," continued Craig.
The Silent Bullet
Arthur B. Reeve

British Dictionary definitions for hangar

hangar

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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Word Origin and History for hangar

1852, "shed for carriages," from French hangar "shed," probably from Middle French hanghart (14c.), perhaps an alteration of Middle Dutch *ham-gaerd "enclosure near a house" [Barnhart], or from Medieval Latin angarium "shed in which horses are shod" [Gamillscheg, Klein]. Sense of "covered shed for airplanes" first recorded in English 1902, from French use in that sense.