A hangar is a large building where airplanes or spacecraft are kept and repaired.
From French “hangar,” meaning a shed or shelter, probably from an older word meaning ‘enclosure’ or ‘fence.’ The meaning shifted toward airplane shelters in the early days of aviation.
It’s easy to mix up “hangar” with “hanger,” but one holds planes and the other holds clothes. A memory trick: hangAr for Airplanes, hangEr for Everything in your closet.
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