Skip to content

hangar

hangar, aircraft shed

noun ahn-GAR Rare

Also means

large warehouse

Usage Note

Hangar is used for aircraft storage, but also informally for any very large industrial building. English borrowed the word from French in the early 20th century along with aviation. The final -r is pronounced, and the nasal vowel -an- is key to its sound.

Examples

"L'avion est garé dans le hangar."

Natural Translation

The plane is parked in the hangar.

Free starter pack

Building your French vocabulary?

Get the 100 most common French words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.

Explore French by topic