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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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, elan, zeal]
2: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style]
3: enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see élan

Moby Thesaurus

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