hangarn.
1. /hɑ̃ɡar/. A covered space, shed, or shelter, esp. for carriages.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
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1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. xiii. 315 Mademoiselle, may we take your coach to town? I saw it in the hangar.
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xv. 253 The people gathered..under the immense hangar or covered space.
1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô vii The rumbling chariot..halted under a wide hangar.
2. 
/ˈhæŋə(r)/. A shed for the accommodation of aircraft or spacecraft.
/ˈhæŋə(r)/. A shed for the accommodation of aircraft or spacecraft.ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > hangar
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1902 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 5/3 Mr. Santos Dumont..will construct a hangar in the Bois de Boulogne.
1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come ix. 48 Inside an aeroplane hangar.
1962 A. Shepard in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 97 I tried to avoid moving into Hangar S—our quarters at the Cape—for as long as I could.
1962 V. Grissom in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 119 On 1 July the capsule was taken from the hangar to the launching pad to be mated to the Redstone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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