Elan

6 definitions found

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

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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"

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 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)
       
       

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].