A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge: "undervalued drones who labored in obscurity” ( Caroline Bates).
To make a continuous low dull humming sound: "Somewhere an electric fan droned without end” ( William Styron).
To speak in a monotonous tone: The lecturer droned on for hours.
To pass or act in a monotonous way.
To utter in a monotonous low tone: "The mosquitoes droned their angry chant” ( W. Somerset Maugham).
A continuous low humming or buzzing sound.
Music Any of the pipes of a bagpipe that lack finger holes and produce a single tone.
Music A long sustained tone.
Music Any of various instruments that produce only a constant pitch.