To roar; bellow.To give forth a monotonous, unvaried tone; utter a dull humming sound; hum or buzz, as a beetle or a bagpipe.To use a dull, monotonous tone: as, he drones in his reading.To give forth or utter in a monotonous, dull tone: as, he drones his sentences.n. A monotonous, continued tone or sound; a humming: as, the drone of a bee.n. In music: A pipe in the bagpipe which gives out a continuous and invariable tone.n. A drone-bass.n. The male of the honey-bee.n. Hence An idler; a sluggard; one who lives on the labor of others.To live in idleness.n. The tone emitted by the drone of a bagpipe.