Definitions for Lessing

Lessing Les·sing

Spelling: [les-ing]
IPA: /ˈlɛs ɪŋ/

Lessing is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in Lessing (egilnss).

Definitions for Lessing

noun

  1. Doris (May) 1919–2013, British novelist in Africa; born in Persia; Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
  2. Gotthold Ephraim [gawt-hawlt ey-frah-im] /ˈgɔt hɔlt ˈeɪ frɑ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1729–81, German critic and dramatist.

Examples for Lessing

"Well, it keeps you on the jump all right," Lessing assured him.

"You'd be a crackerjack to talk to the old ladies," Lessing generously praised him.

Lessing and I bought it the winter the children had the diphtheria.

"Doctor Lessing, if you please, madame," said Monsieur Dupont.

Lessing appears to have been directly led to this by Aristotle.

She is the great friend of Lessing—as I live, there comes Lessing himself.

Doctor Lessing re-entered the room with a letter in his hand.

Lessing is obsessed with too high an estimate of the Captivi.

Lessing was a man of thought, but he died broken on the wheel of fortune.

How much better the diagnosis of Madame Dacier, who is quoted by Lessing!

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