drone

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [usuallysing.] a continuous low noise: the distant drone of traffic * He spoke in a low drone. 2 [usuallysing.] a continuous low sound made by some musical instruments, for example the BAGPIPES, over which other notes are played or sung 3 a male bee that does not work and only lives in order to reproduce compareQUEENBEE, WORKER 4 a person who is lazy and gives nothing to society while others work: The medieval lord of the manor was what some today would call a drone. 5 an aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground verb [V] to make a continuous low noise: A plane was droning in the distance. * a droning voice PHRASALVERBS drone on (about sth) to talk for a long time in a boring way