Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.

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  • noun A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.

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  • noun a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French hangard, of Germanic origin; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

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From French hangar ("shed, hangar"), from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near a house"), from Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). More at home, yard.

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Examples

  • The interior of the hangar is divided into 10 interrogation rooms, separated by plywood walls and usually furnished with white plastic chairs and a small table.

    The Ploy 2007

  • The interior of the hangar is divided into 10 interrogation rooms, separated by plywood walls and usually furnished with white plastic chairs and a small table.

    The Ploy 2007

  • (XJ) "G-Force One" in hangar before liftoff -- Link.

    Boing Boing: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives 2004

  • While Japan demolishes one of its famed indoor "outdoor" simulacradomes, a Zeppelin hangar in Brandenburg, Germany is transformed into a massive indoor beach resort.

    Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The hangar is half a mile long, and is bounded on one side by the docks where the ships are discharging, and on the other by the railway lines where the trains are loading up for the front.

    England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend 1916

  • About four hundred yards west of the hangar was a stretch of flat, sandy ground.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • About four hundred yards west of the hangar was a stretch of flat, sandy ground.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • I have my "own" (house) room with a lockable door and my "own" hangar, which is kind of like an outdoor covered patio.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Zach Center 2005

  • I have my "own" (house) room with a lockable door and my "own" hangar, which is kind of like an outdoor covered patio.

    Madjiri: Homestay Zach Center 2005

  • The hangar was a fantastic jumble of technical projects, some on the drawing board and others clearly at the experimental stage.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

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