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DORIS LESSING

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Overview

DORIS LESSING (noun)
  The noun DORIS LESSING has 1 sense:

1. English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)play

  Familiarity information: DORIS LESSING used as a noun is very rare.


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DORIS LESSING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Doris Lessing; Doris May Lessing; Lessing

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


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