Crossword-Solution: DRONE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drone | v. i. | The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. |
| Drone | v. i. | One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard. |
| Drone | v. i. | That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth. |
| Drone | v. i. | A humming or deep murmuring sound. |
| Drone | v. i. | A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition. |
| Drone | n. | To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. |
| Drone | n. | To love in idleness; to do nothing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRONE | anagram | DERON, DONER, DOREN, ENDOR, NODRE, ONDER, ONRED, ORDEN, REDON, RODEN, RONDE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DRONE (5)
Presently the thin wavering voice broke the stillness, repeating in a singsong drone the words which for countless ages had sealed the doom of numberless victims.
The drone of the jet engines, even their occasional revving, enhanced the mental pleasure Scott experienced.
And yet the cottage was not deserted, for a low sound came to our ears—a kind of drone of misery and despair which was indescribably melancholy.
May we not say that this is the drone in the house who is like the drone in the honeycomb, and that the one is the plague of the city as the other is of the hive? Just so, Socrates.
And yet the cottage was not deserted, for a low sound came to our ears--a kind of drone of misery and despair, which was indescribably melancholy.
Quotes with DRONE (3)
Once I made weapons carved from stone, I tied the weight to a wooden handle, a club to break the bones of my enemy. Then I became wiser... and sharpened the stone to a point and then fastened it to a stick; my arrow. I bent wood and hitched string to it; my bow. I kill my enemy with skill Then I became wiser... and made weapons forged from steel and took care to sharpen the blade of my sword. I kill my enemy with a stroke. Then I became wiser... and made the rifle that would,…
I don't believe that humans can be reduced to homo economicus, but as a group, government officials are remarkably sensitive to financial, political, and reputational costs. Thus, when new technologies appear to reduce the costs of using lethal force, their threshold for deciding to use lethal force correspondingly drops. If killing a suspected terrorist in Yemen or Somalia or Libya will endanger expensive manned aircraft, the lives of U.S. troops, and/or the lives of many in…
People in that robotic, drone-like state, walking the earth with no set mission other than to survive another day. Missing the glory of the day, missing the potential for beauty and magic that each moment brings. Missing the gift of life, to walk in the footsteps of the mundane.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 377 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).