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Antonyms for drone

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : drohn
Phonetic Transcription : droÊŠn

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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