1. stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
2. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
3. an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
4. an unchanging intonation
5. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
6. talk in a monotonous voice
7. make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on"

Similar Words: drone pipe, bourdon, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft, monotone, droning, dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, drone on

Hyponyms: loiterer, lingerer, plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach, putterer, potterer, straggler, strayer

Part Meronyms: bagpipe, pipes

Derivational Morphology: drone on, trail, shack, drag, get behind, hang back, drop behind, lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind, dally, linger, monotone, droning