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hangar

UK/ˈhæŋ.ə/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,523 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: hangars

A hangar is a large shed where aircraft are kept. In the hangar, hangar doors, a maintenance hangar.

It is spelled with an a and is a different word from hanger, which is the thing in a wardrobe. The French original meant a shed near a house, and the aircraft sense arrived with aviation.

Hangar.jpeg: created by NASA / derivative work: Malyszkz · Public domain

Definitions of hangar

  1. 1nounhangarA large shed where aircraft are kept.B2

    “The small plane was pushed back into the hangar before the storm.”

hangar is a building.

Where it comes from

French hangar means a shed, from an Old Frankish word for an enclosure by a house.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʰerdʰ-

  2. Frankish

    *haimgard — fence around a group of houses

  3. Old French

    hangart

  4. Middle French

    hanghart — enclosure near a house

  5. French

    hangar — shed, hangar

  6. English, today

    hangar

Built from

  • *haim · Frankish — home, village, hamlet
  • *gard · Frankish — yard

French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, hamgart, from Old Frankish haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

hangar in the wild

  • The last of these was built to a modified design with a second, half-length, hangar deck below the main hangar deck.

    Illustrious-class aircraft carrier

  • A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft.

    Hangar

  • An underground hangar is a type of hangar for military aircraft, usually dug into the side of a mountain for protection.

    Underground hangar

  • Countries that have used underground hangars include Albania, China, Italy, North Korea, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Yugoslavia, Iran, Vietnam, South Africa, and Pakistan.

    Underground hangar

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.