'Elan \['E]`lan"\, n. [F., fr. ['e]lancer to dart.]
Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elan
n 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person
or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary
ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor,
ardour, zeal]
2: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the
confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, flair,
panache, style]
3: enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a
performance of great elan and sophistication"
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "elan":
activity, alacrity, animal spirits, animation, anxiety,
anxiousness, appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness,
breathless impatience, brio, briskness, capersomeness,
cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, eagerness, enthusiasm,
esprit, exuberance, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness,
gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, glow, gust, gusto, heartiness,
impatience, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, keen desire,
keenness, life, liveliness, lustiness, mettle, oomph, perkiness,
pertness, piss and vinegar, playfulness, promptness, quickness,
readiness, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness,
spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, verve,
vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, warmth, zest, zestfulness, zing,
zip
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ELAN
Education LANguage
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
ELAN
Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
Elan
["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis
Horwood 1987].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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