hangar

[hang-er] /ˈhæŋ ər/

noun

a shed or shelter.

any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to keep (an aircraft) in a hangar:

She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.

Origin

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

Can be confused

hangar, hanger.

Examples from the web for hangar

It's so large it's housed in a building the size of an aircraft hangar.
He said the plane struck a part of the hangar away from any workers and damaged a wall.
The barrels are then coated in resin and cured in an oven the size of a small hangar.
We work from the helicopter hangar on the upper deck.
Pacing, pacing, pacing-wearing out the hangar floor.
Then he would return to take us back to camp, pick up the ice core boxes and head back to the hangar.
It offers fashion shows in its cavernous hangar bay.
Beyond the small lobby, there's a hangar filled with full-size railroad equipment.
Employees signed secrecy agreements and worked inside a giant hangar until the night the video was made.
The plane shivered and taxied back to the hangar twice before takeoff.

British Dictionary definitions for hangar

hangar

/ˈhæŋə/

noun

a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft

Word Origin

C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin

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.