drone
drone is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
- intransitive verb. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
- intransitive verb. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
- intransitive verb. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- intransitive verb. A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
- noun. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
- noun. To love in idleness; to do nothing.
- noun. stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- noun. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
- noun. an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
- noun. an unchanging intonation
- noun. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- verb. talk in a monotonous voice
- verb. make a monotonous low dull sound
"The harmonium was droning on"
Synonyms
bourdon, droning, monotone, dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in drone:
Common word forms
droned, droner, drones, droning
Words from these letters
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