hangar

Meanings

Noun

• A large garage-like structure where aircraft are kept.
• A covered shed for carriages.

Verb

• To store (an aircraft) in a hangar.

Origin

• 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 + *gard. Cognate with Old High German heimgart. More at home, yard.