Chelsea

English

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Chelsea

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛlsi/
• Conservative (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛlsɪ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃelsi/
• Rhymes: -ɛlsi

Proper noun

Chelsea

1. An urban area in west London, on the north bank of the river Thames in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London.
2. A type of porcelain once manufactured there.
3. Any of several places (mostly in the US):
   1. A city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
      • 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe‎, archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

        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.

   2. A New York City neighborhood in Manhattan.
      • 1969, Joni Mitchell, “Chelsea Morning”:

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

   3. A town, the county seat of Orange County, Vermont, United States.
   4. A village and census-designated place within the town in Vermont.
   5. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
4. A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
   1. A female given name transferred from the place name.

      Synonym: (diminutive, informal) Chels

   2. (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name.
5. (soccer) Chelsea FC, an English association football club.

Derived terms

• Chelsea boot
• Chelsea bun
• Chelsea chop
• Chelsea cut
• Chelsea haircut
• Chelsea Heights
• Chelsea-on-Sea
• Chelsea pensioner
• Chelsea smile
• Chelsea tractor
• Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)

Translations

district of London

Chinese: Cantonese: 車路士 / 车路士 (ce1 lou6 si6) Mandarin: 切爾西 / 切尔西 (zh) (Qiè'ěrxī) Georgian: ჩელსი (čelsi) Japanese: チェルシー (Cherushī) Korean: 첼시 (Chelsi) Persian: چلسی (čelsi)

Further reading

• Chelsea (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chelsea, London on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chelsea, Manhattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

The name of the municipality is derived from the English toponym Chelsea, referring in this case to the town in Vermont (the former hometown of the first colonists).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃɛl.si/
• Hyphenation: Chel‧sea
• Rhymes: -i

Proper noun

Chelsea m

1. a municipality of Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada