Usually means: Vivacious enthusiasm or distinctive style.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. elan: Merriam-Webster
  2. elan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elan: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elan: Vocabulary.com
  5. Elan, elan: Wordnik
  6. ELAN, elan: Wiktionary
  7. 'Elan, elan: Dictionary.com
  8. elan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. ELAN (neurolinguistics), ELAN (programming language), Elan (Dungeons & Dragons), Elan (Firefall album), Elan (Prut), Elan (Recording Artist), Elan (company), Elan (disambiguation), Elan (snowmobile), Elan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Elan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. elan: Rhymezone
  12. Elan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. ELAN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. elan: FreeDictionary.org
  15. elan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Elan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. elan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elan: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elan: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ELAN: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. ELAN (Emulated LAN): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  5. ELAN: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ELAN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elan: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elan: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ELAN)

noun:  A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
noun:  Uncommon spelling of élan. [Spirit; zeal; ardor.]
noun:  (astronomy) Acronym of enormous Lyman-alpha nebula. [(astronomy) A large gas cloud (nebula) larger than galaxies, found in intergalactic space, which radiates with an emission spectrum containing 2.47 THz lines (Lyman-alpha lines).]

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