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shelley

Shel·ley
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [shel-ee]
    • /ˈʃɛl i/
    • /ˈʃe.li/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [shel-ee]
    • /ˈʃɛl i/

Definitions of shelley word

  • noun shelley Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) [woo l-stuh n-kraft,, -krahft] /ˈwʊl stənˌkræft,, -ˌkrɑft/ (Show IPA), 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley). 1
  • noun shelley Percy Bysshe [bish] /bɪʃ/ (Show IPA), 1792–1822, English poet. 1
  • noun shelley a male or female given name. 1
  • noun shelley 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 0
  • noun shelley 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 0
  • noun shelley a feminine name: var. Shelly 0
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shelley popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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