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]