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Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

noun

  1. Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin) [wool, -st, uh, n-kraft, -krahft], 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).
  2. Percy Bysshe [bish], 1792–1822, English poet.
  3. a male or female given name.


Shelley

/ ˈʃɛɪ /

noun

  1. ShelleyMary (Wollstonecraft)17971851FBritishWRITING: writer Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
  2. ShelleyPercy Bysshe17921822MBritishWRITING: poet Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“It’s nerve-racking isn’t it, on television,” his mother, Shelley Sykes, said gently from the chair next to him.

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