Usually means: Unmanned aerial vehicle, remotely controlled.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word drone:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. drone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drone, drone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drone, drone: Wordnik
  7. drone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Drone: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Drone, drone: Wiktionary
  10. drone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. drone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. drone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. drone: Dictionary.com
  14. drone (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. drone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Drone (aircraft), Drone (bee), Drone (film), Drone (music), Drone (wrestler), Drone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Drone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. drone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. drone: Rhymezone
  20. Drone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. drone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Drone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. drone: Free Dictionary
  24. drone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Drone, drone: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. drone: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drone: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drone (disambiguation), drone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRONE: Acronym Finder
  2. drone: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drone: The Folk File

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See droned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
noun:  (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
noun:  (metonymically): One who performs menial or tedious work.
noun:  A remotely operated vehicle:
noun:  (metonymically): An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
noun:  (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.
noun:  (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
verb:  To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
verb:  To speak in a monotone.
noun:  A low-pitched hum or buzz.
noun:  (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
noun:  (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
noun:  A humming or deep murmuring sound.
noun:  (UK, slang) The drug mephedrone.
noun:  A surname.

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