drome

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See also: Drôme, -drome, and 'drome

English

Etymology 1

From French, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running”). Doublet of dromos.

Noun

drome (plural dromes)

  1. (obsolete) The crab plover, Dromas ardeola, of North Africa.

Etymology 2

Noun

drome (plural dromes)

  1. (informal) Alternative form of 'drome (“aerodrome”)
    • 2011, Derek John Mulvaney, Digging Up the Past, page 36:
      We then put on flying suits and boots to be driven to the plane – planes being widely dispersed around the drome in case of attack.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

drome

  1. plural of droom

Dutch

Verb

drome

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dromen

Anagrams

Manx

Adjective

drome

  1. Eclipsed form of trome.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trome hrome drome
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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