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

	

	ELAN
       Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE)