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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats