English

Alternative forms

• errant, arrand, arrant

Noun

errand ‎(plural errands)

1. A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

   The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.‎

2. The purpose of such trip.

   I'm going to town on some errands.‎

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:

     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.

3. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

Derived terms

• fool's errand
• lost errand

Translations

Verb

errand ‎(third-person singular simple present errands, present participle erranding, simple past and past participle erranded)

1. (transitive) To send someone on an errand.

   All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.

2. (intransitive) To go on an errand.

   She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

Anagrams

• darner
• Darren