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drone   (TTS Sound)

The noun drone has 5 senses

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


• monotone, drone, droning -- (an unchanging intonation)


• dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke -- (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)


• drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft -- (an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control)


• drone, drone pipe, bourdon -- (a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone)

The verb drone has 2 senses

• drone -- (make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on")


• drone, drone on -- (talk in a monotonous voice)