Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
- 2intransitive verb
One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4intransitive verb
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- 5intransitive verb
A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
- 6noun
To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
- 7noun
To love in idleness; to do nothing.
- 8noun
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
- 9noun
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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- 10noun
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
- 11noun
an unchanging intonation
- 12noun
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- 13verb
talk in a monotonous voice
- 14verb
make a monotonous low dull sound
"The harmonium was droning on"
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