drone
Meaning of drone
- make a continuous low humming sound.
in the far distance a machine droned
- a continuous low humming sound.
he nodded off to the drone of the car engine
- a continuous musical note of low pitch.
the drone rose by a third to A
- a male bee in a colony of social bees, which does no work but can fertilize a queen.
- a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft or small flying device.
pilots use remote controls to guide a stealth reconnaissance drone
a photographer used a drone to take some unconventional photos of the countryside
Old English drān, drǣn ‘male bee’, from a West Germanic verb meaning ‘resound, boom’; related to Dutch dreunen ‘to drone’, German dröhnen ‘to roar’, and Swedish dröna ‘to drowse’.
Information about drone
- The plural form of drone is: drones.
- Languages in which drone is used:
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Hyphenation of drone
drone
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- drone is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
drone synonyms
Meaning monotone:
Meaning dawdler:
dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke
Meaning drone pipe:
Meaning make a low, steady continuous sound like that of a bee:
Meaning make a low, continuous humming sound:
Meaning (of something rapidly rotating or moving to and fro) make a low, continuous, regular sound:
Meaning (of a sound) resonate; continue to be heard:
Meaning say something in a low or indistinct voice:
Meaning make a continuous deep, resonant sound:
Meaning (of a cat) make a low continuous vibratory sound expressing contentment:
Meaning make a sharp sibilant sound as of the letter s:
Meaning speak very softly using one's breath rather than one's throat, especially for the sake of secrecy:
Meaning emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar:
Meaning an instance of vibrating:
Meaning a low or indistinct continuous sound:
Translation of drone
- Italian: brusio, mormorio, fuco, drone
- Spanish: murmullo, zángano, teledirigido, dron
- French: brouhaha, abeillaud, faux-bourdon, drone
- Portuguese: burburinho, zangão
- German: Drohne
Anagrams of drone
Deron, Doner, Endor, Onder, Redon, redon, ronde
Words that rhyme with drone
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