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54 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• drone n. A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
• drone n. (Now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
• drone n. One who performs menial or tedious work.
• drone n. (Aviation) A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
• drone n. (Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
• drone n. (Chiefly Internet slang) A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially…
• drone v. (Transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
• drone v. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
• drone v. To speak in a monotone way.
• drone n. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
• drone n. (Music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
• drone n. (Music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
• drone n. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
• Drone prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish
  • drøne v. To boom, to roar.
  • drøne v. To race, to tear (move at excessive speed).
• Finnish
  • drone n. (Anglicism) drone (type of unmanned aircraft).
• Middle english
  • drone n. Alternative form of drane.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • drone n. A drone (male bee).
  • drone n. A drone (radio-controlled pilotless aircraft).
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • drone n. Drone (male bee).
  • drone n. Drone (unmanned aircraft).
• Turkish
  • drone n. (Aviation) An unmanned aerial vehicle; drone.

— English words, defined in German —

• drone S. Die männliche Biene.
• drone S. Das ferngesteuerte Fluggerät.
• drone S. Das gleichbleibend tiefe Geräusch.
• drone S. Die eintönige Arbeit verrichtende Person.
• drone S. Die von anderer Leute Arbeit lebende Person.

— English words, defined in French —

• drone n. (Zoologie) Faux bourdon (abeille mâle).
• drone n. (Singulier) Bourdonnement.
• drone n. (Singulier) Ronronnement.
• drone n. (Aéronautique, Militaire) Drone.
• drone n. (Musique) Bourdon de cornemuse.
• drone n. (Musique) Drone (genre musical).
• drone v. Ronronner.
• drone v. (Sens figuré) Marmonner, parler d’une voix monotone.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• drone s. Zoología. (Apoidea) Zángano.
• drone s. Milicia. VANT, vehículo aéreo pilotado por control remoto.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• drone s. (Entomologia⚠) zangão (macho das abelhas), abelha-macha.
• drone s. (Entomologia⚠) zangão (macho de inseto, como o das formigas a exemplo).
• drone s. (Entomologia⚠) zangão (macho de vespa).
• drone s. (Aeronáutica⚠) drone.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• drone s. (Zoologia) fuco.
• drone s. Ronzio.
• drone s. (Militare) drone.

— In Dutch —

• drone n. (Luchtvaart) op afstand bestuurbaar luchtvaartuig.

— In French —

• drone n.m. Engin mobile terrestre, aérien ou naval, sans équipage…
• drone n.m. (Musique) Forme de musique minimaliste faisant essentiellement…
• drone n.m. (Botanique) Plante herbacée, utilisée comme plante fourragère…
• drône n.m. Variante de drone.

— In Portuguese —

• drone s. (Aeronáutica⚠) pequena aeronave destripulada equipada de…
• drone s. (Aeronáutica⚠) objeto voador guiado por controle remoto e…
• drone s. (Ficção científica, Astronáutica⚠) pequena nave espacial…

— In Italian —

• drone s. (Aeronautica) (meccanica) (tecnologia) (ingegneria) aeromobile…

102 English words from 23 English definitions

ability aerial agents aircraft Alternative and Anglicism ant Aviation bagpipe bee boom but buzz can Chiefly colloquial controlled critically deep does drone droning especially excessive fertilize fired fixed form genre hum humming idler independently Internet kidnap kill lazy lengthy low low-pitched male members menial missile monotone move murmuring music not Now one opposition performs person pilotless pipes pitch pitched pitch␣pipes produce queen race radio radio-controlled rare remotely repeated roar similar slang Someone sound sounds speak speed state surname tear tedious that the think Toyota Transitive type UAV Uganda Ugandan uncountable unmanned used uses van vehicle wasp way which who with without work

22 English words from 31 foreign definitions

bourdon control cornemuse das Die drone Engin Faux Forme fourragère genre macho mobile monotone musical musique naval nave Person Plante sans Sens

86 foreign words from 31 foreign definitions

abeille abelha abelha-macha abelhas aéreo aérien aeromobile Aeronáutica Aéronautique aeronave afstand anderer Arbeit Astronáutica bestuurbaar Biene Botanique Bourdonnement científica comme como controle eintönige Entomologia equipada équipage espacial essentiellement exemplo faisant Faux␣bourdon ferngesteuerte Ficção Ficção␣científica figuré Fluggerät formigas fuco genre␣musical Geräusch guiado herbacée ingegneria inseto lebende Leute Luchtvaart luchtvaartuig macha mâle männliche Marmonner meccanica Milicia Militaire Militare minimaliste musique␣minimaliste objeto parler pequena pilotado plante por remoto Ronronnement Ronronner Ronzio Sens␣figuré Singulier tecnologia terrestre tiefe une utilisée Variante vehículo verrichtende vespa voador voix von Zángano zangão Zoología Zoologie

27 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

droned droner drones Drones droney drone␣on droners droneth dronefly droneless dronelike dronepipe droneship dronesome droneathon drone-athon drone-a-thon droneflies Dronehenge drone␣metal dronepipes droneships droneathons drone-athons drone-a-thons dronedarone droneboarding

25 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Cedrones ladrones madrones padrones hydronette minidrones squadroned squadrones hydronettes microdrones combat␣drones Nintendrones office␣drones quinhydrones alimony␣drones chondronectin suicide␣drones hydronephroses hydronephrosis hydronephrotic kamikaze␣drones chondronecrosis dihydroneopterin pyohydronephrosis orange-spotted␣drone␣fly

20 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Cedrone ladrone madrone padrone antidrone ephedrone minidrone mephedrone microdrone silandrone combat␣drone Nintendrone office␣drone quinhydrone alimony␣drone counterdrone suicide␣drone kamikaze␣drone norethindrone normethandrone

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

dro DRO Dron one -one ron Ron RON Rone

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

eno- nor NOR nor- Nor. Nord ord Ord

9 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

doner Doner Doren nerdo orned redon renod Roden ronde

111 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

adreno- Bodner bonder Borden borned Bredon Broden bronde Codner conder Conder corned degron dehorn dendro dendro- dentro Dohner donder doners Doners donger donner Donner Doreen Dorens Dorner Dorney downer droned droner drones Drones dronte droven Ednora enduro Enford Ferdon fonder Fonder Forden forend gerdon Gonder Gorden groned -hedron Horden horned +61 words

43 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Deno Deon dern Dern dero doer done Done Dore dorn Dorn Dron EDRO endo Endo endo- Erno nerd NERD Nero node NODE Nord oden Oder onde oned oner orde Oren Orne orné redo rend reno Reno reno- rode Rode roed Roen rond Rone

26 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

-arone crone Crone dione Dione doone do␣one Drane -drine Droge Droke drome Drôme 'drome -drome Drona drony drove Érone grone irone krone prone Prone trone Trone

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

done Done Dron Rone

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

dronte

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