hangar

UK: /ˈhæŋə^r/ US: /ˈhæŋɚ/ ,(hang′ər)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

hang•ar /ˈhæŋɚ/   n. [countable]

1. Building a shed or shelter, esp. for housing aircraft.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

hang•ar  (hang′ər), n. 

1. Building a shed or shelter.
2. Aeronautics any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.

v.t., v.i. 

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

• Old Low Franconian *haimgard fence around a group of buildings, equivalent. to haim small village (see hamlet) + gard yard²
• French: shed, hangar, Middle French, probably
• 1850–55

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hangar / ˈhæŋə/ noun

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

Etymology: 19th Century: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin