Source : WordNet®

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