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drone

/dɹoʊn/noun, verb1 syllable

Drone means: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.

Synonyms for drone15

noun, as in someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke

noun, as in an unchanging intonation

monotone, droning

noun, as in an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft

noun, as in a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

drone pipe, bourdon

verb, as in talk in a monotonous voice

drone on

also used for drone

dronepipe, drone music, meow

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What does drone mean?7

noun

1

someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

2

an unchanging intonation

3

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

4

a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

5

stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

verb

1

talk in a monotonous voice

2

make a monotonous low dull sound“The harmonium was droning on”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with drone?35

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All 35 rhymes for drone, grouped by syllable

Drone in a sentence

  • I want to buy a drone, but my parents won't let me.CK
  • The aggressor lost another ship the other day, to the defender's drones.morbrorper
  • Drone racing is a high-speed sport demanding instinctive reflexes.Hybrid
  • My son is playing with his drone in the yard.Tron
  • The police used a drone with a loudspeaker to disperse the crowd.Hybrid
  • The drone can recognize which flying insects are beneficial and avoid them.Hybrid
  • The drone zoomed in on the target and properly identified it.Amastan
  • Amazon wants to use drones to deliver packages.Hybrid

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of drone

as a noun

plural
drones

as a verb

past tense
droned
present participle
droning
third-person singular
drones
past participle
droned