Meaning

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

noun an unchanging intonation

noun someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

originFrom Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk…

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