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Definitions: Shelley |
ShelleyNoun1. English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851). 2. English Romantic poet (1792-1822). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Shelley" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bank clearing". |
Date "Shelley" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Synonyms: ShelleySynonyms: Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley (n), Mary Shelley (n), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (n), Percy Bysshe Shelley (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Shelley is a city located in Bingham County, Idaho. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,813.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Shelley is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, north of Holmfirth.Shelley Hall was built in the early 17th century.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shelley."
Crosswords: Shelley |
| English words defined with "Shelley": ashen ♦ blanched, bloodless ♦ exult ♦ Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster ♦ Hunt ♦ James Henry Leigh Hunt, jubilate ♦ Leigh Hunt, livid ♦ Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ♦ Percy Bysshe Shelley ♦ rejoice ♦ triumph ♦ white, Wollstonecraft. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Shelley": Siccis pedibus ♦ Team Leader ♦ Wives of Literary Men. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Shelley" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (expectorate, expectoration, phlegm, saliva, slaver, spit, spittle, sputum). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Shelley, oh, Shelley, I understand if you're totally disgusted and you never want to see me again. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) You've always been the popular one, and Shelley was always the brainy one, and Lily was the fun one, and Paige was the sexy one, and I was the big, fat one! (Valentine; writing credit: Donna Powers) She likes to joke that I choked the last breath of life out of her long ago, and now she's just a shell of a woman, I think that's so cute I called her Shelley! You know, when I call her that, sometimes she laughs so hard she cries. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) Looks like Shelley has a thing for Foreman. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) Yes, and Foreman has a thing for Shelley. And it's in his pants! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shelley (1972) The Return of Shelley (1988) Shelley (1986) | |
Song Titles | Johnny Angel (performing artist: Shelley Fabares) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shelley Wortham, student trainee, Honolulu, HI. [Slide 97CS3137]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Composite showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Kate Shelley, fountain dedicated to her in Dubuque, Iowa; her home; medals awarded to her; Des Moines River bridge; and railroad disaster of July 6, 1881. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gen. Shelley, Auditor Navy, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk,facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shelley, Idaho (vicinity). Japanese-Americans hoeing sugar beets on farm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Shelley Scott. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | The soul's joy lies in doing. |
| Familiar acts are beautiful through love. | |
| To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. | |
| O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? | |
| Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. | |
| How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. | |
| Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. | |
| Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. | |
| The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. | |
Shelley Winters | It was so cold I almost got married. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal. |
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| "Shelley" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.36% of the time. "Shelley" is used about 292 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 88.36% | 258 | 18,412 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.3% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (common) | 0.34% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 292 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Shelley" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shelley | First name Female | 49,000 | 354 |
| Shelley | Last name | 5,000 | 2,532 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Shelley" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bank clearing". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Shelley." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Shelley | Female | English | N/A |
| Shelly | Female | English | Shelley |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Shelley, ID (city, FIPS 73450) |
Expressions using "Shelley": Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley ♦ Mary Shelley ♦ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ♦ Percy Bysshe Shelley. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Shelley": be-kind-to-shelley. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
shelley | 195 | mary wollstonecraft shelley | 18 |
mary shelley | 163 | frankenstein by mary shelley | 17 |
shelley long | 123 | shelley michelle | 16 |
percy bysshe shelley | 100 | queen shelley | 15 |
percy shelley | 70 | shelley wildes | 15 |
shelley fabares | 61 | george shelley | 14 |
frankenstein mary shelley | 59 | jody shelley | 13 |
shelley duvall | 50 | shelley strunckel von | 13 |
shelley winter | 37 | matsuba shelley | 13 |
shelley china | 36 | laine shelley | 10 |
shelley davis | 35 | shelley allegro | 10 |
morrison shelley | 23 | shelley king | 10 |
beattie shelley | 22 | bone china shelley | 10 |
biography mary shelley | 22 | kevin shelley | 9 |
shelley hotel | 22 | frankenstein shelley | 9 |
shelley ohara | 20 | shelley west | 9 |
shelley idaho | 20 | shelley volante font | 8 |
shelley smith | 20 | shelley wood | 8 |
rachel shelley | 19 | shelley berman | 8 |
model nicole shelley | 18 | pete shelley | 8 |
bysshe ozymandias percy shelley | 8 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Shelley"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | шелли (shelly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Shelley" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eshelly, Ghelle, Schally, Schenley, Schmelke, Schnelle, Selye, Shanley, Shellam, shelleen, Shellmex, Shelsley, Sherley, Sherleys, Shillay, Skelly, Spellacy, Szelenyi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: shelly. | |
-2 letters: heels, hells, seely, selle, shell, yells. | |
-3 letters: eels, eely, ells, else, eyes, heel, hell, lees, leys, lyes, lyse, seel, sell, yell. | |
-4 letters: eel, ell, els, eye, hes, hey, lee, ley, lye, see, sel, she, shy, sly, yeh, yes. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, es, he, sh, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-l-s-y" | |
+2 letters: flywheels. | |
+3 letters: bellyaches, heedlessly, helplessly, hopelessly. | |
+4 letters: bellyachers, cheerlessly, deathlessly, heartlessly, jellyfishes, lecherously, shamelessly, shapelessly, wholesomely. | |
+5 letters: blithesomely, breathlessly, changelessly, shellfishery, speechlessly, weightlessly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 65 6C 6C 65 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... . .-.. .-.. . -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h e l l e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0065 006C 006C 0065 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53747178787191 |
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