1. A circular dwelling consisting of one room used by the Navajo Indians of North America: Jane read an article about hogans which indicated that the entrances normally faced to the east, were made of wooden logs or stones, and the dome-shaped roofs were covered with mud and had holes in the tops to let smoke go out from the fires burning inside. They were just like the ones she had seen during the school field trip the day before.
2. Etymology: from Navajo, hoghan, "house".