lessing

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Definition of lessing

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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verb

name

A surname from German.

“The 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Rowling used both sides of her card to handwrite the prequel to her seven-book Potter series.”

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* 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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