v.
make a continuous low humming sound.
▸speak tediously and at length:
Jim droned on for an hour.
n.
- a low continuous humming sound.
▸a pipe (especially in a set of bagpipes) or string used to sound a continuous note of low pitch.
- a male bee which does no work in a colony but can fertilize a queen.
▸an idle person.
- a remote-controlled pilotless aircraft.
Etymology
OE drān, dræn ‘male bee’, from a W. Gmc verb meaning ‘resound, boom’.