1. (

• drone

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

2. (

• monotone ,
• drone ,
• droning

) an unchanging intonation ;

3. (

• dawdler ,
• drone ,
• laggard ,
• lagger ,
• trailer ,
• poke

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

4. (

• drone ,
• pilotless_aircraft ,
• radio-controlled_aircraft

) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control ;

5. (

• drone ,
• drone_pipe ,
• bourdon

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

1. (

• drone

) make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on" ;

2. (

• drone ,
• drone_on

) talk in a monotonous voice ;