hangar
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈhæŋ.ə//
- United Kingdom/[ˈhæŋ.ə]/
- //ˈhæŋ.ɚ//
- /[ˈhæŋ.ɚ] ~ [ˈhæŋ.ɹ̩]/
- //ˈheɪ̯ŋ.ɚ//
A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
noun
- 1
A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.
By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.
"Yeah. That's only thing they're good for." "Let's do it the other way around," Juanita says. She gets up and walks off the hangar deck.
- 2
obsoleteA covered shed for carriages.
Etymology
Borrowed from 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.
verb
- 1
To store (an aircraft) in a hangar.
Forms
- plural
- hangars
- past tense
- hangared
- past participle
- hangared
- present participle
- hangaring
- third person singular
- hangars
hangar · A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
hanged · damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)hanging · Suspended.hangman · An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.