Shelley

/ˈʃɛli/
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Other forms: Shelleys

Definitions of Shelley
  1. noun
    English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
    synonyms: Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  2. noun
    Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)
    synonyms: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    poet
    a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
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