Lessing

name, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of less form-of, gerund, participle, present
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.

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doris may lessinggotthold ephraim lessing

Etymology

* As a German surname, borrowed from German Lessing, a variant of Lessig. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, from lesník (“forester”). Compare Lesnik.

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