drone

1. 1.

   make a monotonous low dull sound

   “The harmonium was droning on”

   Broadersound
2. 2.

   talk in a monotonous voice

   Synonymsdrone on

   Broadertalk

Other forms of drone

plural

drones·

past tense

droned·

present participle

droning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drone

What does drone mean?

drone means "stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drone?

drone has 1 syllable: drone. In IPA it is /ˈdɹoʊn/.

What is another word for drone?

Close synonyms include monotone, droning, dawdler, laggard, lagger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drone a common word?

drone is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.