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Noun
That project, which is part of the master plan, calls for 331 acres of development that will include a modern terminal, a new customs inspection facility, dozens of commercial hangars and more than a million square feet of retail space.—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025 Unfortunately, there’s always someone who misses the safari packing list memo and has to leave their luggage behind at the hangar, toting their stuff to camp in plastic bags.—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
Leslie Day, a friend who hangared her plane near Ms. Bera’s at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif., outside San Diego, estimated in an interview that Ms. Bera had spent the equivalent of more than three years in the pilot’s seat.—Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018 The issue of high fuel prices came to the board’s attention in late spring when airport tenants – which range from flight schools, to charter aircraft, to hangar renters – began to complain to board members.—Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2017 See All Example Sentences for hangar
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, "shed open on one or more sides for storing agricultural products, farm implements, and vehicles," going back to Middle French, perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *haimgarda- "enclosure around a building," going back to West Germanic *haima- "dwelling" + *garđa- "enclosure" — more at home entry 1, yard entry 1
Note:
The French form occurs earliest as a place name, Hangart (1135), in Somme department. Though the persistent attestation of the word with initial h-, diachronically and in dialects, is a certain indication of Germanic origin, the fact that such a compound is apparently not attested as a generic word or place-name in a Germanic language renders the etymology speculative.
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