Drone

//dɹəʊn//

Synonyms for "drone" (272 found)

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Closest matches (55)

Noun(1 words)
bourdon

Strong matches (81)

Verb(1 words)
drone on

Related words (136)

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Verb(1 words)
whirr

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More general

19 entries

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Synonyms

2 entries

coordinate

1 entries

derived

32 entries

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has context

2 entries

is a

3 entries

manner of

2 entries

part of

1 entries

related to

25 entries

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Translations

274 translations across 69 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries
  • dar noun (male bee)
  • hommeltuig noun (unmanned aircraft)

Albanian

4 entries
  • brumbull noun (male bee)
  • buçallë noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)
  • djerraditëz noun (male bee)
  • trëntor noun (male bee)

Ancient Greek

2 entries
  • θρῶναξ noun (male bee)
  • κηφήν noun (male bee)

Arabic

4 entries
  • درون noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • زنانة noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • طَائِرَة بِدُونِ طَيَّار noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • مُسَيَّرَة noun (unmanned aircraft)

Armenian

1 entries
  • անօդաչու noun (unmanned aircraft)

Azerbaijani

4 entries
  • PUA noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • erkək arı noun (male bee)
  • pilotsuz uçuş aparatı noun (unmanned aircraft)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • беспіло́тны лята́льны апара́т noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • беспіло́тнік noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • бесьпілётнік noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • бръмчене noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • бръмчене noun (hum or buzz)
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ручило noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)

Burmese

2 entries
  • ဒရုန်း noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ပျားထီး noun (male bee)

Catalan

3 entries
  • VANT noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • abellot noun (male bee)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 無人機 /无人机 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 無人航空載具 /无人航空载具 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 無人飛機 /无人飞机 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 無人駕駛飛機 /无人驾驶飞机 noun (unmanned aircraft)

Czech

3 entries
  • bezpilotní letoun noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • trubec noun (male bee)

Danish

3 entries
  • drone noun (male bee)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dronefly noun (unmanned aircraft)

Dutch

4 entries
  • bourdon noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)
  • brommen noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • dar noun (male bee)
  • dreunen noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Esperanto

4 entries
  • droneo noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • flugroboto noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • senpilota aviadilo noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • spavo noun (unmanned aircraft)

Estonian

2 entries
  • droon noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • lesk noun (male bee)

Finnish

4 entries
  • bordunapilli noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • drooni noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • humina noun (hum or buzz)

French

4 entries
  • bourdonnement noun (hum or buzz)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dupe noun (drudge)
  • faux bourdon noun (male bee)

Galician

4 entries
  • abellón noun (male bee)
  • abáboro noun (male bee)
  • abázcaro noun (male bee)
  • franco noun (male bee)

Georgian

2 entries
  • დრონი noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • მამალი ფუტკარი noun (male bee)

German

4 entries
  • Basspfeife noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)
  • Brummen noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • Drohne noun (male bee)
  • Drohne noun (unmanned aircraft)

Greek

1 entries
  • κηφήνας noun (male bee)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • מַזְלָ״ט noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • מָלָ״ט noun (unmanned aircraft)

Hindi

1 entries
  • मानव रहित विमान noun (unmanned aircraft)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • drón noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • here noun (male bee)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • dengung noun (drudge)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • lebah jantan noun (male bee)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • pörissä verb (to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Interlingua

4 entries
  • ape mascule noun (male bee)
  • susurrar noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • susurro noun (hum or buzz)
  • parlar monotonemente verb (to speak in a monotone way)

Iranian Persian

1 entries
  • پَهْپاد noun (unmanned aircraft)

Irish

4 entries
  • andord noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • crónán noun (male bee)
  • drantán noun (hum or buzz)
  • drón noun (unmanned aircraft)

Italian

4 entries
  • brusio noun (hum or buzz)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • fuco noun (male bee)
  • gonzo noun (drudge)

Japanese

4 entries
  • ドローン noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ブンブン noun (hum or buzz)
  • 無人航空機 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 無人飛行機 noun (unmanned aircraft)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ұшқышсыз ұшу аппараты noun (unmanned aircraft)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ដ្រូន noun (unmanned aircraft)

Korean

4 entries
  • 드론 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 무인기 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 무인항공기 noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • 수벌 noun (male bee)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • учкучсуз учуучу аппарат noun (unmanned aircraft)

Latin

1 entries
  • fucus noun (unmanned aircraft)

Latvian

2 entries
  • bezpilota lidaparāts noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • trans noun (male bee)

Lithuanian

3 entries
  • bepilotis orlaivis noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • tranas noun (male bee)
  • trãnas noun (male bee)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • беспи́лотник noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • беспи́лотно ле́тало noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • брмчење noun (hum or buzz)
  • брмчи noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • ആൺതേനീച്ച noun (male bee)

Marathi

1 entries
  • ड्रोन noun (unmanned aircraft)

Middle English

1 entries
  • drane noun (male bee)

Māori

4 entries
  • matatopa noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • rōria noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • rōria noun (hum or buzz)
  • rōria verb (to produce a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • nêrehing noun (male bee)
  • pîrox noun (male bee)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries
  • drone noun (male bee)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dronefly noun (unmanned aircraft)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries
  • drone noun (male bee)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dronefly noun (unmanned aircraft)

Old English

1 entries
  • drān noun (male bee)

Polish

4 entries
  • bezpilotowiec noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • bezzałogowiec noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • brzęczenie noun (hum or buzz)
  • brzęczeć noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • zangão noun (male bee)
  • zumbido noun (hum or buzz)
  • zumbir noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)

Romanian

2 entries
  • dronă noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • trântor noun (male bee)

Russian

4 entries
  • БПЛА noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • беспило́тник noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • беспило́тный лета́тельный аппара́т noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • dròn noun (unmanned aircraft)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • BPL noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • bespilotna letelica noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • bespilotna letjelica noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)

Sicilian

2 entries
  • ciarmulijari verb (to speak in a monotone way)
  • murmurijari verb (to speak in a monotone way)

Slovak

2 entries
  • bezpilotné lietadlo noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • trúd noun (male bee)

Slovene

3 entries
  • brezpilotno letalo noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • trọ̑t noun (male bee)

Spanish

4 entries
  • abejón noun (male bee)
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • drone noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • murmullo noun (hum or buzz)

Swahili

2 entries
  • droni noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ndege nyuki noun (unmanned aircraft)

Swedish

3 entries
  • bordun noun (fixed-pitch pipe in bagpipe)
  • drönare noun (male bee)
  • drönare noun (unmanned aircraft)

Tajik

2 entries
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • паҳпод noun (unmanned aircraft)

Thai

2 entries
  • อากาศยานไร้คนขับ noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • โดรน noun (unmanned aircraft)

Tibetan

4 entries
  • ཕོ་སྦྲང noun (male bee)
  • མི་མེད་འཕུར་གྲུ noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ཟིར་ཟིར noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • ཟིར་ཟིར noun (hum or buzz)

Turkish

4 entries
  • bodat noun (male bee)
  • boruzan noun (male bee)
  • cızırdamak noun (a low-pitched hum or buzz)
  • cızırtı noun (hum or buzz)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • безпіло́тний літа́льний апара́т noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • безпіло́тник noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • дрон noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • тру́тень noun (male bee)

Urdu

3 entries
  • بعید منضبط طیارہ noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • بَغَیْر پائِلَٹ کی فَضائی گاڑی noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • ڈْرون noun (unmanned aircraft)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • dron noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • uchuvchisiz uchish apparati noun (unmanned aircraft)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • máy bay không người lái noun (unmanned aircraft)

Welsh

2 entries
  • drôn noun (unmanned aircraft)
  • gwenynen segur noun (male bee)

Sample sentences

40 total sentences available.

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Long story short, she’s on the No Fly List and we might have been followed here by drone.

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Tom bought a drone.

Source: tatoeba (4880021)

Tom lost his drone.

Source: tatoeba (4880022)

Tom wants to buy a drone.

Source: tatoeba (4880023)

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