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What does Shelley mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Shelley? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet.
  2. A habitational surname​.
  3. A male given name, transferred use of the surname, mostly before 1930.
  4. A female given name used since the 1930s, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.
Name
  1. A male or female given name of English and Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) From the wood, or the meadow's edge. A boy or girl's name.
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For Chernaik, the figure is not Shelley himself, but a stylized portrait of the lyric poet that recurs in much of Shelley's poetry.
Shelley and Thomas however, had made themselves scarce and gone to clear up the kitchen.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
Shelley reached out and ran a finger along the wooden stock and metal barrel.
And Shelley had made up her mind that this year, her junior year, there was going to be a difference.
Though Sullivan, timing his run from the wing to perfection, appeared to have chipped the ball over Shelley, a superb late tackle thwarted him.

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