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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
'Elan \['E]'lan"\, noun [F., fr. ['e]lancer to dart.] Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elan
noun
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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Elan ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis Horwood 1987].
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ELAN Education LANguage
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ELAN Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE)
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