Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shelley
2 senses of shelley
Sense 1
Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley -- (English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851))
INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley -- (Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822))
INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))