Associations to the word «Lessing»

Dictionary definition

LESSING, noun. German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781).
LESSING, noun. English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky