Drone

What “Drone” means

Noun

1. A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen.
2. One who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
3. One who performs menial or tedious work.
4. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.
5. Any remotely operated or autonomous vehicle for land, sea, air, or space.

Verb

1. To kill or destroy with a drone (unmanned aircraft), or with a missile fired by a drone.

Verb

1. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. To speak in a monotone.

Noun

1. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
3. A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

Where the word comes from

From 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 drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tărtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone”), Slovak trúd (“drone”), Slovene trot (“drone”). The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”). Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

Business name ideas with “Drone”

Industries where “Drone” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Drone Company
• Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services