| Pronunciation: | | ey'lân
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- [n] enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"
- [n] distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
- [n] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | ardor, ardour, dash, flair, panache, style, zeal |
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| | See Also: | | avidity, avidness, eagerness, elegance, keenness, life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \['E]`lan"\, b. [F., fr. ['e]lancer to dart.]
Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis Horwood 1987]. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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