hangar

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noun

han·​gar ˈhaŋ-ər  ˈhaŋ-gər 

: shelter, shed

especially : a covered and usually enclosed area for housing and repairing aircraft

hangar

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verb

hangared; hangaring; hangars

transitive verb

: to place or store in a hangar

Examples of hangar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Framework in the Desert April 12-14 Transforming the Atlantic Aviation hangar into a desert club paradise, Framework in the Desert is a weekend-long mini-festival. —Thania Garcia, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024

The three-day event will transform the Atlantic Aviation hangar into a desert club paradise. —Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024

The flight will depart JSX’s hangar at Dallas-Love Field Airport at 1 p.m. CT, circle the city, and then land back at the airport at 3 p.m. CT. —Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2024

The museum – planned as a 100,000-square-foot facility that will be built close to the old hangar – is a private-public partnership between the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation, the city of Irvine and the Marine Corps. —Erika I. Ritchie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024

Surly Bonds Schutte, as she will no doubt soon be known around the hangar, gives us a glimpse of the spirit that won the West . . . —Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024

Art, feeling pessimistic again, stepped outside of the hangar to smoke a cigarette. —Jason Kersten, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2024

Planes meet buses behind a large hangar, almost entirely out of view from a perimeter road. —Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2024

Three people died and nine others were injured Wednesday in a building collapse at a hangar being built at an airport in Boise, Idaho, the fire department said. —Phil Helsel, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024

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

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.

Verb

verbal derivative of hangar entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1852, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1943, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

hangar

noun

hang·​ar

ˈhaŋ-ər,

ˈhaŋ-gər

: a shelter for housing and repairing aircraft

Etymology

Noun

from French hangar "shed"