hangarlike

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adjective

Resembling an aircraft hangar.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English hangar →
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Meanings

adjectivehangarlike (comparative more hangarlike, superlative most hangarlike)

comparative more hangarlike · superlative most hangarlike

  1. Resembling an aircraft hangar.

    I WAS waiting in the checkout line of the hangarlike Kohl’s store at Caesar’s Bay Bazaar in Brooklyn, my arms full of clothes, when a white-haired lady sidled up to me.

    2007 September 20, Zarah Crawford, “You Won’t Believe Who I Saw at Kohl’s”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishhangar
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishhangarlike

From hangar + -like.

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Cite this entry
APA

hangarlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangarlike

MLA

“hangarlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangarlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hangarlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangarlike.

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