Definitions for drone

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Spelling: [drohn]

IPA: /droʊn/

Drone is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in drone (denor).

Definitions for drone

noun

1. the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
2. an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight: (loosely) any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely:
3. a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer.
4. a drudge.
5. Music. a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments. the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone. a bagpipe equipped with such pipes.
6. a monotonous low tone; humming or buzzing sound.
7. a person who speaks in a monotonous tone.

verb (used with object)

1. to say in a dull, monotonous tone.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
2. to speak in a monotonous tone.
3. to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner (usually followed by on):

Origin of drone

before 1000; 1945-50 for def 2a; Middle English drone, drane, Old English dran, dron; akin to Old High German treno, German Drohne

Examples for drone

The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

But it takes more than just pilots to operate the drone fleet.

To be proud that one wasn't a loafer or a drone, or a parasite on the body economic.

The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

In other words, the Air Force is saying that its drone force has been stretched to its limits.

It was vague and indistinct and the drone plane was shooting the scene from too far away.

From far away came a drone that was separate from the throbbing of his head.

All up the Valley the drums' rattle drowned the drone of the locusts in the stubble.

The sky above the Vulcan was filled with the drone of hurtling shells.

The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.