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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ey-lahn, ey-lan; French ey-lahn
Phonetic Transcription : eɪˈlɑn, eɪˈlæn; French eɪˈlɑ̃

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Définition of élan

Origin :
  • 1877, from French élan (16c.), "spring, bound, impetus," noun derived from élancer "to rush, dart," from Old French elancer, from e- "out" (see ex-) + lancer "to throw," originally "to throw a lance," from Late Latin lanceare, from Latin lancea (see lance (n.)).
  • noun vivacity
Example sentences :
  • Besides, there isnt any dead body awaiting his elan on that ship or any ship.
  • Extract from : « A Place in the Sun » by C.H. Thames
  • The course of the aqueduct from Elan to Birmingham was marked by a thin red line.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Germ » by Martin Swayne
  • My friend Sarakoff and I introduced the germ that we discovered into the Elan reservoirs.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Germ » by Martin Swayne
  • On the north lay the river Elan and on the south the steep side of a mountain towered up against the luminous sky.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Germ » by Martin Swayne
  • Elan was its characteristic—but it was hard to reduce to the stratified regularity of an army.
  • Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon
  • Daim is the French for deer, and cerf for stag; elan is the true term, when one would speak of an elk.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • It was not an ordinary movement, but an intense rush made with all the elan and vigour of hardy and highly-trained men.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
  • His feoffees were to pay nineteen marks “for ye makyng ye sayd Elan nun.”
  • Extract from : « Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 » by Eileen Edna Power
  • A certain proportion of this would, of course, be allowed to escape, as it would never do to stop the river Elan altogether.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
  • He could not appreciate the weakness of assuming the defensive in the midst of the elan of a successful advance.
  • Extract from : « The Campaign of Chancellorsville » by Theodore A. Dodge
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