An airtight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered on a cable underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a diver or a small number of divers.

Alternative spelling of diving bell

A style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.

Of or pertaining to a style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.

Alternative spelling of belles-lettres

(obsolete) The humanities. / (archaic) Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties. / (archaic) Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics.

(idiomatic) To undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group.

a species of heather, native to western and central Europe, Erica cinerea; bell heather

plural of bell-end

(US) A beautiful, archetypal (especially upper class) white woman of the Southern United States.