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Noun
Ahead of Trump's recording with Rogan, the former president held an intimate 100-person rally at private jet hangar in East Austin to hammer home his campaign’s message on border security.—Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance will stop at a Waukesha airplane hangar Sunday evening in hopes of winning over local Catholic voters.—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2024
Verb
Leslie Day, a friend who hangared her plane near Ms. Bera’s at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif., outside San Diego, estimated in an interview that Ms. Bera had spent the equivalent of more than three years in the pilot’s seat.—Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018 The issue of high fuel prices came to the board’s attention in late spring when airport tenants – which range from flight schools, to charter aircraft, to hangar renters – began to complain to board members.—Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2017 See all Example Sentences for hangar
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from French, "shed open on one or more sides for storing agricultural products, farm implements, and vehicles," going back to Middle French, perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *haimgarda- "enclosure around a building," going back to West Germanic *haima- "dwelling" + *garđa- "enclosure" — more at home entry 1, yard entry 1
Note:
The French form occurs earliest as a place name, Hangart (1135), in Somme department. Though the persistent attestation of the word with initial h-, diachronically and in dialects, is a certain indication of Germanic origin, the fact that such a compound is apparently not attested as a generic word or place-name in a Germanic language renders the etymology speculative.
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