E-la

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E-la \E"-la`\, n.
     Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence,
     proverbially, any extravagant saying. "Why, this is above
     E-la!" --Beau. & Fl.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ELA
       n : an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971
           to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967
           to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and
           imperialism and the United States [syn: {Revolutionary
           People's Struggle}]