drones
- 1Plural of drone.
Camera drones captured aerial footage of the spreading wildfire.
In a healthy hive, the drones never gather nectar themselves.
Note
One regular plural serves every meaning of drone: the male bees of a hive, the archaic idlers, workers stuck with tedious jobs, remote-controlled aircraft and vehicles, and, in Uganda, the vans used by state agents. Nothing in the form tells them apart, so a modifier like camera, or a setting like the hive, does the work. Because the idler meaning is archaic, modern readers usually meet bees or machines.
drones is a form of drone
drone, noun: An aircraft or other vehicle without a pilot or crew on board, controlled remotely or by an onboard computer; especially an unmanned aerial vehicle. Full entry
- Forms
- dronedrones plural
- Spelling
- drone → drones: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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