elan

6 definitions found

elan - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  'Elan \['E]`lan"\, n. [F., fr. ['e]lancer to dart.]
     Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
     [1913 Webster]

elan - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
           elan, zeal]
      2: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the
         confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan,
         flair, panache, style]
      3: enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance
         of great elan and sophistication"

elan - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Elan
  
     ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis
     Horwood 1987].
  

elan - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ELAN
         Education LANguage
         

  ELAN
         Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE)
         

elan - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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