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drone

stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

talk in a monotonous voice

make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"

Synonyms:

• Indian file,
• accompaniment,
• alliteration,
• alto,
• array,
• articulation,
• assonance,
• bagpipe,
• bagpipes,
• bank,
• baritone,
• bass,
• basso continuo,
• basso ostinato,
• bassus,
• bee,
• beggar,
• birr,
• blubber,
• bombilate,
• bombinate,
• boom,
• bourdon,
• bum,
• bumble,
• bumblebee,
• bummer,
• burden,
• burr,
• buzz,
• cadger,
• canto,
• cantus,
• cantus figuratus,
• cantus planus,
• catena,
• catenation,
• chain,
• chain reaction,
• chaining,
• chanter,
• chest voice,
• chime,
• clockwork regularity,
• coloratura,
• concatenation,
• connection,
• consecution,
• constancy,
• continue the same,
• continuo,
• continuum,
• contralto,
• cornemuse,
• coupon clippers,
• course,
• cycle,
• daily round,
• dawdle,
• dawdler,
• descant,
• descent,
• dingdong,
• doodlesack,
• drag along,
• drag on,
• drone bass,
• droning,
• endless belt,
• endless round,
• even pace,
• even tenor,
• falsetto,
• figured bass,
• file,
• filiation,
• foot-dragger,
• freeloader,
• gabble,
• gamut,
• gibber,
• gibbering,
• goldbrick,
• goof-off,
• gradation,
• ground bass,
• harping,
• head voice,
• honeybee,
• hornet,
• hum,
• humdrum,
• idle rich,
• invariability,
• jabber,
• jibber,
• jingle,
• jingle-jangle,
• laggard,
• lallygag,
• laze,
• leisure class,
• lie-abed,
• line,
• lineage,
• lingerer,
• loaf,
• loiter,
• loiterer,
• loll,
• lounge,
• lounge lizard,
• lumpen proletariat,
• maunder,
• maundering,
• mendicant,
• monologue,
• monotone,
• monotonousness,
• monotony,
• moocher,
• mouth,
• mouthing,
• mumble,
• mumbling,
• murmur,
• murmuring,
• musette,
• mutter,
• muttering,
• near rhyme,
• nexus,
• nonworker,
• orderliness,
• panhandler,
• parasite,
• part,
• pendulum,
• periodicity,
• persist,
• pipes,
• pitter-patter,
• plain chant,
• plain song,
• plenum,
• plodder,
• powder train,
• prevail,
• prick song,
• procrastinator,
• progression,
• purr,
• queen,
• queen bee,
• queue,
• range,
• rank,
• recurrence,
• regularity,
• rentiers,
• repeated sounds,
• repetitiousness,
• repetitiveness,
• reticulation,
• rhyme,
• rotation,
• round,
• routine,
• row,
• run,
• run through,
• sameliness,
• sameness,
• scale,
• sequence,
• series,
• single file,
• singsong,
• slant rhyme,
• sleepyhead,
• slow goer,
• slow-foot,
• slowbelly,
• slowpoke,
• slug,
• sluggard,
• smoothness,
• snail,
• sob,
• soprano,
• sordellina,
• speak incoherently,
• spectrum,
• spiv,
• splutter,
• sponger,
• sputter,
• stale repetition,
• stick-in-the-mud,
• string,
• strum,
• succession,
• susurrate,
• susurration,
• swath,
• tedium,
• tenor,
• the unemployable,
• the unemployed,
• thorough bass,
• thread,
• thrum,
• tier,
• tortoise,
• train,
• treadmill,
• treble,
• trot,
• undersong,
• undeviation,
• undifferentiation,
• union pipes,
• unnecessary repetition,
• unvariation,
• voce,
• voce di petto,
• voce di testa,
• voice,
• voice part,
• wasp,
• whir,
• whisper,
• whispering,
• whiz,
• windrow,
• worker,
• yellow jacket