Errand
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɛɹənd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Errand is a noun meaning A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
Meaning
A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
More Meanings
- The purpose of such a journey.
- An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
- (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
- (intransitive) To go on an errand.
Example Sentences
She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
I had not taught thee then the alphabet Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set And bound up, might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely and mutually.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Word Forms
- errands
- erranding
- erranded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shopping, grocery, travel, commission, fare, mission.
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