hangar
pronunciation
How to pronounce hangar in British English:
UK [ˈhæŋə(r)]
How to pronounce hangar in American English:
US [ˈhæŋɚ, ˈhæŋɡɚ]
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- Noun:
- a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained
Word Origin
- hangar (n.)
- 1852, "shed for carriages," from French hangar "shed," which is of uncertain origin. Probably from Middle French hanghart (14c.), which is perhaps an alteration of Middle Dutch *ham-gaerd "enclosure near a house" [Barnhart, Watkins], from a Proto-Germanic compound *haimgardaz of the elements that make home (n.) and yard (n.1). Or the Middle French word might be 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.
Example
- 1. Bio2 was a gigantic glass ark the size of an airport hangar .
- 2. The beam will be aimed at a collector on the other side of the hangar , rather than several kilometres away .
- 3. In a draughty hangar on the night before the florida primary , he quoted the bible and an earthy comic named larry the cable guy .
- 4. In a huge hangar in the chinese city of nanjing 170 miles inland from shanghai a workman is hacking away at a tree trunk that has been transported here from the forests of indonesia .
- 5. Smoke rises from wrecked planes and the burning hangar is dominating the background , while at the bottom left you can see personnel with rifles firearms that could do little , if anything , against the airborne enemy planes .