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Definition: Lessing |
LessingNoun1. German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lessing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
"Lessing" is a common misspelling or typo for: blessing, lacing, lassoing, leasing, lessen, lesson, losing, messing. |
Synonym: LessingSynonym: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lessing |
| English words defined with "Lessing": Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lessing": Bertrand process ♦ Fables ♦ Lessing process. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Doris Lessing | Better Counsel comes overnight. |
| Laughter is by definition healthy. | |
| Literature is analysis after the event. | |
| Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. | |
| The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. | |
| Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. | |
| Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. | |
| A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. | |
Gotthold E. Lessing | Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Lessing" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Lessing" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.31% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 7.69% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Lessing": Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Lessing": winckelmann-lessing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Lessing": blessing, outblessing, preblessing, wirelessing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Lessing": blessings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: singles. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gneiss, ingles, singes, single, slings. | |
-2 letters: glens, ingle, isles, lenis, liens, lines, lings, segni, sengi, signs, sines, singe, sings, sling. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, isle, legs, leis, lens, less, lien, lies, line, ling, lins, ness, nils, segs, seis, sels, sign, sine, sing, sins. | |
-4 letters: els, eng, ens, ess, gel. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: blessing, gainless, glassine, glibness, glistens, kingless, leasings, loginess, shingles, singlets, slingers, sniggles, swingles, ugliness, wingless. | |
+2 letters: blessings, englishes, ensilages, fleshings, gasolines, glassines, godliness, legginess, lessening, lessoning, lightness, nestlings, nightless, rieslings, salpinges, seedlings, settlings, shealings, shelvings, shielings, shinglers, signalers, signalise, singspiel, slangiest, sleddings, sleepings, snigglers, spellings, stealings, sterlings, stingless, swellings, tasseling, wineglass. | |
+3 letters: analgesias, analgesics, anglesites, anglicises, assembling, assignable, declassing, dieselings, enologists, galvanises, gentilesse, glassiness, glibnesses, gloominess, glossiness, grisliness, growliness, guiltiness, inselbergs, kingliness, languishes, livingness, loginesses, lovingness, lungfishes, lysogenies, lysogenise, neologisms, nosologies, pressingly, reglossing, reshingles, ringhalses, sclerosing, shavelings, shearlings, signalised, signalises, signalizes, signallers, singleness, singletons, singspiels, sinologies, sinologues, slanginess, slightness, sloganizes, solecising, spangliest, stringless, subleasing, surcingles, tasselling, uglinesses, wrestlings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 73 73 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ... ... .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e s s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46718585758073 |
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