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drones

/dɹəʊnz/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
  2. Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
  3. One who performs menial or tedious work.
  4. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
  5. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
  6. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
  7. A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
  8. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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