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elan
/ˈilən/
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What does elan mean?
noun
- Uncommon spelling of élan.
- Acronym of enormous Lyman-alpha nebula.
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈilən/
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These people are much given to bleed, and therefore stop their noses with deer hair or the hair of an elan.
Quick to realise the need of retaliation against the new German weapon, the French developed their chemical offensive and defensive with characteristic elan and intuition.
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Life is a process of expansion, of the unfoldment of new powers; driven by that inner impulse which the philosophers of Pragmatism call the elan vital.
To Bergson, in his recent work "L'Evolution Creatrice", evolution consists in an elan de vie which to our fragmentary observation and analytic reflexion appears as broken into a manifold of elements and processes.