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Chelsea

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃɛlsɪ//
  • Canada//ˈt͡ʃɛlsi//
  • Australia//ˈt͡ʃelsi//

An urban area in west London, on the north bank of the river Thames in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2778).

proper noun

  1. 1

    An urban area in west London, on the north bank of the river Thames in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2778).

  2. 2

    A type of porcelain once manufactured there.

  3. 3

    Any of several places (mostly in the US): A city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

    Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.

  4. 4

    Any of several places (mostly in the US): A New York City neighborhood in Manhattan.

    Woke up, it was Chelsea morning / And the first thing that I heard / Was a song outside my window

  5. 5

    Any of several places (mostly in the US): A town, the county seat of Orange County, Vermont, United States.

  6. 6

    Any of several places (mostly in the US): A village and census-designated place within the town in Vermont.

  7. 7

    Any of several places (mostly in the US): A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia

  8. 8

    A unisex given name transferred from the place name. A female given name transferred from the place name.

  9. 9

    rareA unisex given name transferred from the place name. A male given name transferred from the place name.

  10. 10

    Chelsea FC, an English association football club.

    A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.

Etymology

From Old English Ċealchȳþ, from cealc (“chalk”) + hȳþ (“landing place”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).