Shelley

[shel-ee]

noun

1. Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

2. Percy Bysshe 1792–1822, English poet.

3. a male or female given name.

Shelley

/ ˈʃɛlɪ /

noun

1. 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. 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

Example Sentences

Because Shelley came up with “Frankenstein” as an 18-year-old newlywed who’d just lost a baby, her message gets boiled down to gender: Women birth life, men mimic it.

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West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito has so far remained unbowed despite the potential impact on areas she represents like Martinsburg.

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The actor says he learned he got the part when he was, as it happens, reading the 1818 Mary Shelley novel in a field in the middle of Australia.

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The fictional chef-patriarch of the house, Shelley Landwald, commands that each of his children prepares a signature dish for us, the guests, one that declares, “This is who I am. This is the future.”

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Every time Shelley Barnett, Melody’s daughter, comes to Palace, she’s taken back to her childhood.

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