lessing

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lessing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Lessing
      n 1: German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment
           (1729-1781) [syn: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]
      2: English author of novels and short stories who grew up in
         Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) [syn: Lessing,
         Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing]