Drone can mean:

In nature:

  • Drone (bee), a male bee
  • A male wasp
  • A male ant

In vehicles:

  • A unmanned aerial vehicle, often used for target practice or surveillance
  • A remotely operated vehicle (ROV), used for mine clearing or underwater exploration
  • An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), a robotic land vehicle often used to replace humans in hazardous situations

In fiction:

  • Drone (2017 film)
  • A member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
  • A humanoid that has been assimilated by the Borg in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • "Drone" (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • Drone Weapon, similar to a guided missile, in the Stargate universe
  • Three robotic helpers in the movie Silent Running, named Huey, Dewey and Louie
  • In the novel The Traveller, the term drones describes a class of citizens that have become exhausted
  • Detective Drone, the hero of Victorian crime stories
  • A Zerg worker unit in Starcraft

In music: