Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A one-room Navajo structure traditionally built with the entrance facing east, used as a dwelling or for ceremonial purposes. Early hogans were made of earth-covered poles, with later models often built of logs, stones, and other materials.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of strong liquor.
- noun A hut of the Navaho Indians, consisting of a conical framework covered with poles, bark, and earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An earth-covered Navajo lodge; it is traditionally built with the entrance facing east.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A one-room
Navajo dwelling or ceremoniallodge , constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east
- noun United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (1912-1997)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Enter your name hogan scarpe June 23, 2010 at 8:42PM
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Enter your name hogan scarpe June 23, 2010 at 11:01PM
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November 24, 2008 at 11: 16 PM virgil will run again. hurt isn't ready for primetime, yet. clarke hogan is much more likely though in the event virgil doesn't run. in the end, it's tucker watkins 'pick to make.
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He built a 'hogan' to live in and is living the 'good life' on his Rancho Costa Nada.
Behind the News liz donovan 2003
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He built a 'hogan' to live in and is living the 'good life' on his Rancho Costa Nada.
Behind the News: November 2003 liz donovan 2003
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He built a 'hogan' to live in and is living the 'good life' on his Rancho Costa Nada.
Archive 2003-11-01 liz donovan 2003
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All next day we travelled through a parched, monotonous landscape, now and then meeting Navajos with their flocks and herds, and passing by an occasional Navajo "hogan," or hovel-like house, with its rough corral near by.
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Originally it had been a log "hogan," but a large adobe addition had been constructed for a store.
Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912
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In the latest bit of right-wing lunacy on health care reform, RedState. com writer "hogan" brazenly compares health care reform bills to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 -- inanely adding that if health care reform passes, you can "say goodbye to freedom."
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Brooke Obie, Media Matters for America 2009
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In the latest bit of right-wing lunacy on health care reform, RedState. com writer "hogan" brazenly compares health care reform bills to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 -- inanely adding that if health care reform passes, you can "say goodbye to freedom."
dailyword commented on the word hogan
Mulder was put in this in one of the X-Files episodes to be healed after he almost died out in the desert.
July 24, 2012