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5-letter words (4 found)

DONER,DRONE,REDON,RONDE,

4-letter words (15 found)

DERN,DERO,DOEN,DOER,DONE,DORE,NERD,NODE,ONER,REDO,REND,RENO,RODE,ROED,RONE,

3-letter words (19 found)

DEN,DOE,DON,DOR,END,EON,ERN,NED,NOD,NOR,ODE,ONE,ORD,ORE,RED,REN,REO,ROD,ROE,

2-letter words (12 found)

DE,DO,ED,EN,ER,NE,NO,OD,OE,ON,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 51 words from drone according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of drone

drone rdone dorne odrne rodne ordne drnoe rdnoe dnroe ndroe rndoe nrdoe donre odnre dnore ndore ondre nodre ronde ornde rnode nrode onrde norde droen rdoen doren odren roden orden dreon rdeon deron edron redon erdon doern odern deorn edorn oedrn eodrn roedn oredn reodn erodn oerdn eordn drneo rdneo dnreo ndreo rndeo nrdeo dreno rdeno derno edrno redno erdno dnero ndero denro ednro nedro endro rnedo nredo rendo erndo nerdo enrdo doner odner dnoer ndoer onder noder doenr odenr deonr edonr oednr eodnr dneor ndeor denor ednor nedor endor onedr noedr oendr eondr neodr enodr roned orned rnoed nroed onred nored roend orend reond erond oernd eornd rneod nreod renod ernod nerod enrod onerd noerd oenrd eonrd neord enord

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Definitions and meaning of drone

drone

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɹəʊn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɹoʊn/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”).

Cognate with:

  • Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”),
  • Low German drone (“drone”),
  • German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”),
  • Danish drone (“drone”),
  • Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).

The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

Noun

drone (plural drones)

  1. A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
  2. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
  3. (metonymically): One who performs menial or tedious work.
    Synonym: drudge
  4. A remotely operated vehicle:
    1. (metonymically): An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
      Synonyms: UAV, UAS
      Hyponym: quadcopter
    2. (expansion of the sense "an unmanned or remotely operated aircraft"): (chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
      Synonym: ROV
  5. (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
  6. (chiefly Internet slang, derogatory) A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
Usage notes
  • In sense “unmanned aircraft”, primarily used informally of military aircraft or consumer radio controlled quadcopters, without precise definition. The application of the term drone to unmanned aircraft, (and subsequently to other unmanned vehicles) has been traced to British military jargon of the mid 1930s. The most common aircraft used for British naval gunnery target practice at that time was a pilotless, radio controlled biplane produced by the de Havilland Aircraft Company named the DH.82 Queen Bee. Despite being called the Queen Bee, which, of course, is a female bee, by its maker, these aircraft came to be known as "drones", a particular name in entomology for a male bee or wasp, in reference to the fact that, in a manner similar to the fact of a drone honeybee dying after performing its essential function during a nuptial flight, the DH.82 was expected to "give its life" (that is, to be destroyed) as a result of the performance of its own essential function as a gunnery target.
Hyponyms
  • (military): kamikaze drone
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Asturian: dron
  • → Spanish: dron
  • → Italian: drone
  • → Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰੋਨ (ḍron)
  • → Polish: dron
  • → Portuguese: drone
Translations

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

  1. (transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.

Etymology 2

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).

Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

Verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

  1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
  2. To speak in a monotone.
Derived terms
  • drone on
Translations

Noun

drone (plural drones)

  1. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
  2. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
  3. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
  4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

drone (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang) The drug mephedrone.
    Synonym: meow

Further reading

  • Drone (bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Drone (aircraft) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Drone music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

  • Doner, Roden, doner, nerdo, orned, redon, renod, ronde

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English drone (“aircraft drone”). Doublet with dar (“male bee”), which descended from Middle Dutch, cf. Limburgish dreen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /droːn/
  • Hyphenation: drone
  • Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

drone m (plural drones, diminutive droontje n)

  1. a remotely controlled aircraft; a drone

Derived terms

  • droneaanval

Finnish

Etymology

< English drone

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdrone/, [ˈdro̞ne̞]
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Syllabification(key): dro‧ne

Noun

drone

  1. (Anglicism) drone (type of unmanned aircraft)

Declension

Synonyms

  • drooni
  • lennokki

Further reading

  • “drone”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[21] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English drone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁon/

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

  1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English drone.

Noun

drone m (invariable)

  1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Anagrams

  • derno, dreno, drenò, rendo, ronde

Middle English

Noun

drone

  1. Alternative form of drane

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).

Noun

drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural droner, definite plural dronene)

  1. a drone (male bee)
  2. a drone (radio-controlled pilotless aircraft)

Synonyms

  • dronefly (aircraft)

References

  • “drone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdruːnə/

Noun

drone m (definite singular dronen, indefinite plural dronar, definite plural dronane)

  1. drone (male bee)
  2. drone (unmanned aircraft)

Synonyms

  • (male bee): hannbie
  • (aircraft): dronefly

References

  • “drone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English drone.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dro‧ne
  • Rhymes: -oni

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

  1. drone (unmanned aircraft)

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • dron

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɾon/ [ˈd̪ɾõn]
  • Rhymes: -on

Noun

drone m (plural drones)

  1. drone

Usage notes

  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • dron (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɾon/

Noun

drone (definite accusative droneu, plural dronelar)

  1. (aviation) An unmanned aerial vehicle; drone.

Declension

Synonyms

  • insansız hava aracı
  • İHA

Source: wiktionary.org