elan

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"

English

Alternative spellings

• élan

Pronunciation

/eɪˈlɑːn/

Noun

1. Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Elan may refer to:

• ELAN, an emulated LAN
• Elan, another name for the 1980s home computer Enterprise 128
• Elan (Recording Artist), aka Elan Atias
• Elan Sara Defan (Recording Artist), a Mexican singer
• Elan, a character in the webcomic The Order of the Stick
• Elan Graphics, computer graphics subsystem for mid-1990s Silicon Graphics workstations
• Elan Group Ltd, a Manpower Inc. company in the UK
• Elan Line, a Slovenian sports equipment company parent company of Elan Marine – yacht manufacturer
• Elan Morin Tedronai, the true name of Ishamael in Robert Jordan's fictional series The Wheel of Time.
• Elan programming language, an educational programming language developed in the 1970s.
• Elan Valley, a valley in Wales
• Elan Vital, religious movement
• Kia Elan, car model
• Lotus Elan, a car model
• Canon Elan, a series of SLR cameras from Canon
• The poets of Elan, group of Ecuadorian poets
• Ski-Doo Elan, a model of snowmobile

Elán may refer to:

• Elán (band), a Slovak rock band

Élan may refer to:

• Élan, a major drugs firm based in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
• Élan, Ardennes, a commune of the Ardennes département in France
• Élan Motorsport Technologies, a race car manufacturing consortium based in the United States
• Élan may refer to vivacity or energy arising from enthusiasm (borrowed from French)

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