Antonyms for drone

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : drohn

Phonetic Transcription : droʊn

Definition of drone

Origin : Old English dran, dræn "male honeybee," from Proto-Germanic *dran- (cf. Middle Dutch drane; Old High German treno; German Drohne, which is from Middle Low German drone), probably imitative; given a figurative sense of "idler, lazy worker" (male bees make no honey) 1520s. Meaning "pilotless aircraft" is from 1946.
Drones, as the radio-controlled craft are called, have many potentialities, civilian and military. Some day huge mother ships may guide fleets of long-distance, cargo-carrying airplanes across continents and oceans. Long-range drones armed with atomic bombs could be flown by accompanying mother ships to their targets and in for perfect hits. ["Popular Science," November, 1946]
Meaning "deep, continuous humming sound" is early 16c., apparently imitative (cf. threnody). The verb in the sound sense is early 16c.; it often is the characteristic sound of airplane engines. Related: Droned; droning.

noun person who is lazy
noun continuous noise
verb making noise continuously

Example sentences :

All up the Valley the drums' rattle drowned the drone of the locusts in the stubble.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

The sky above the Vulcan was filled with the drone of hurtling shells.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

From far away came a drone that was separate from the throbbing of his head.
Extract from : « Raiders Invisible » by Desmond Winter Hall

It was vague and indistinct and the drone plane was shooting the scene from too far away.
Extract from : « Decision » by Frank M. Robinson

To be proud that one wasn't a loafer or a drone, or a parasite on the body economic.
Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton

The drone of his voice had a strangely rasping, soulless ring.
Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad

I am a drone—the product of society at its worst—and you are one of the workers, Donald.
Extract from : « 'Smiles' » by Eliot H. Robinson

Some planets have been set back, and even destroyed as a result of drone activity.
Extract from : « The Players » by Everett B. Cole

Drone says that "this judgment has continued to represent the law."
Extract from : « International Copyright » by George Haven Putnam

There ensues a vast shuffling of words, a drone and a gurgle of syllables.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

Synonyms for drone

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