Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lessing

2 senses of lessing

Sense 1
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- (German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781))
       INSTANCE OF=> dramatist, playwright -- (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2
Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing -- (English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919))
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))