drone UK /dɹəʊn/US /dɹoʊn/noun 16verb 3forms 4phrases 1 noun16 •A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen.All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive. — 1697 •Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.aerial dronessea drones •An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an uncrewed/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole. •Any remotely operated or autonomous underwater vehicle, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.The Apex boat is a small radio-controlled craft which tows, at an angle, two Drone boats. The latter are small craft filled with explosives to be detonated from the control radio of the Apex boat. — 1946 •Any watercraft on the water's surface that is remotely operated or autonomous. •Any UGV (uncrewed ground vehicle). •A low-pitched hum or buzz.He chanted as he flew and the car responded with sonorous drone. — 1908 •A humming or deep murmuring sound.The monotonous drone of the wheel. — 1847 •(slang, offensive) One who lacks the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character. •(slang) In dronification kink, one who is mindless and obedient to a dominant, characterized by a detached and robotic identity and an anonymous appearance, typically composed of a latex suit and gas mask. •One who performs menial or tedious work. •One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe. •A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds. •(UK, slang) The drug mephedrone. •A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities. — 2021 •One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.he that gathereth not every day as much as I doe, the next day shall be set beyond the river, and be banished from the Fort as a drone, till he amend his conditions or starve. — 1624 verb3 •To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. •To speak in a monotone. •(informal) To kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone.“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.” — 2016 formsdroned · droning · drones · droneth Phrases with drone drone onTo talk in a boring manner for a long time.