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hogan

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈhoʊ.ɡən//

A one-room Native American (especially Navajo) dwelling or lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud.

noun

  1. 1

    A one-room Native American (especially Navajo) dwelling or lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud.

    The wives of warriors were under strict instructions not to leave their hogans until the men had returned, hopefully successful, from their martial adventures abroad […].

Etymology

Borrowed from Navajo hooghan (“dwelling, house”).

Forms

plural
hogans
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).