A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: "undervalued drones who labored in obscurity"(Caroline Bates).
A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control.
[Middle English, from Old English drān.]
drone 2 (drōn) v.
droned, dron·ing, drones
v.
intr.
To make a continuous low dull humming sound: "Somewhere an electric fan droned without end"(William Styron).
To speak in a monotonous tone: The lecturer droned on for hours.
To pass or act in a monotonous way.
v.
tr. To utter in a monotonous low tone: "The mosquitoes droned their angry chant"(W. Somerset Maugham). n.
A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.
Music
Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.
A long sustained tone.
Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.
drone (drōn) Pronunciation Key
A male bee, especially a honeybee whose only function is to fertilize the queen. Drones have no stingers, do no work, and do not produce honey.
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