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Noun drone has 5 senses
- drone - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
--1 is a kind of bee
- monotone, drone, droning - an unchanging intonation
--2 is a kind of intonation, modulation, pitch contour
- dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
--3 is a kind of idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
--3 has particulars:
- drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft - an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
--4 is a kind of heavier-than-air craft
- drone, drone pipe, bourdon - a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
--5 is a kind of pipe, tabor pipe
--5 is a part of bagpipe, pipes
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