Meanings
plural hangars
- A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.
The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.
2 more examples
By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9"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.
1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 402
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frankish*haimgard“fence around a group of houses”
- Old Frenchhangart
- Middle Frenchhanghart“enclosure near a house”
- Frenchhangar“shed, hangar”
- Englishhangar
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.
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Arabic حَظِيرَة, سَقِيفَة
- حَظِيرَة (ḥaẓīra)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- سَقِيفَة (saqīfa)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- عَنْبَر (ʕanbar)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Bulgarian ханга́р
- ханга́р (hangár)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Catalan hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Chinese Mandarin 飛機庫 /飞机库, 飛機棚 /飞机棚
- 飛機庫 /飞机库 (fēijīkù)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- 飛機棚 /飞机棚 (fēijīpéng)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- 機庫 /机库 (jīkù)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Czech hangár
- hangára large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Danish hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Dutch hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Esperanto hangaro, aeroplanejo
- hangaroa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- aeroplanejoa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Estonian angaar
- angaara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Finnish hangaari, lentokonehalli
- hangaaria large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- lentokonehallia large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- lentokonesuojaa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
French hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
German Hangar
- Hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Greek υπόστεγο
- υπόστεγο (ypóstego)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Hindi विमानशाला, हैंगर
- विमानशाला (vimānśālā)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- हैंगर (haiṅgar)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Hungarian hangár
- hangára large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Icelandic flugskýli
- flugskýlia large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Indonesian hanggar
- hanggara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Italian hangar, aviorimessa
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- aviorimessaa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- aerorimessaa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Japanese 格納庫, ハンガー
- 格納庫 (kakunōko)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- ハンガー (hangā)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Korean 격납고, 행어
- 격납고 (gyeongnapgo)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- 행어 (haeng'eo)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Latvian angārs
- angārsa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Lithuanian angaras
- angarasa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Norwegian Bokmål hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Persian هنگار
- هنگار (hangâr)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Polish hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Portuguese hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Romanian hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Russian анга́р
- анга́р (angár)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Slovak hangár
- hangára large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Spanish hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Swedish hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Turkish hangar
- hangara large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Ukrainian анга́р
- анга́р (anhár)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Urdu ہینگر
- ہینگر (haiṅgar)a large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Vietnamese hăng ga, nhà chứa máy bay
- hăng gaa large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
- nhà chứa máy baya large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
hangar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangar
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