Associations to the word «Shelley»

Wiktionary

SHELLEY, proper noun. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet.
SHELLEY, proper noun. A habitational surname​.
SHELLEY, proper noun. A male given name, transferred use of the surname, mostly before 1930.
SHELLEY, proper noun. A female given name used since the 1930s, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.

Dictionary definition

SHELLEY, noun. English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851).
SHELLEY, noun. Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822).

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.