Shirley

[shur-lee]

noun

1. James, 1596–1666, English dramatist.

2. William, 1694–1771, English governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1741–56: urged assault on Louisburg.

3. a city on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.

4. a male or female given name: a family name taken from an Old English placename.

Example Sentences

Garbage singer Shirley Manson described Hogg as "our revered Scottish fashion queen".

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Jump ahead 20-something years, I’d come to work at the Baltimore Sun, and I had never heard of the real-life death of Shirley Partridge, whose body was found in the fountain of Druid Hill Park.

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Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has said she "couldn't breathe" for 20 minutes after choking on a fish bone before Saturday's live show in Blackpool.

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You probably love them too: Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Shirley MacLaine’s Aurora Greenway in “Terms of Endearment,” Holly Hunter’s neurotic news producer Jane Craig in “Broadcast News,” having her regular morning cry.

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"We hope that our study will help clinicians better understand how these new medications work in clinical practice. Our transparent and open science practices, including pre-registration of a public protocol and shared analytic code, are designed to support scientific discussion," said last author Shirley Wang, PhD, an associate epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine.

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