errand
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errand
- /ˈɛɹənd/ Canada, US, UK
- /ˈeɹənd/ Australia, New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɛɹənd
Where it comes from
From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).
noun errands · arrand
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A mission or quest.
What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
Similar: run
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A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (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.
Similar: run
- The purpose of such a journey. 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. Aub
- An oral message trusted to a person for delivery. 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.
verb errands · erranding · erranded · arrand
- To send someone on an errand. All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
- To go on an errand. She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shopping, grocery, travel, commission, fare, mission, quest, pursuit, running, run, stroke, racing, thing, ride, course, contest
Translations
Every language
noun trip to accomplish a small task
| Español | recado, mandado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 심부름 simbureum |
| 日本語 | お使い o-tsukai, 使命 shimei |
| 中文 | 使命 shǐmìng, 任務 /任务 rènwu, 差使 chāishǐ |
| Português | encargo |
| Français | course |
| Deutsch | Besorgung, Auftrag |
| Italiano | commissione, ambasciata, incombenza |
| Русский | поруче́ние poručénije, командиро́вка komandiróvka, зада́ние zadánije |
| עברית | שְׁלִיחוּת shliẖút |
noun purpose of a small trip
| Español | recado, mandado |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 任務 /任务 rènwu |
| Deutsch | Besorgung |
| Italiano | incarico |
| Ελληνικά | θέλημα thélima, μικροδουλειά mikrodouleiá |
| Русский | поруче́ние poručénije, зада́ние zadánije |
noun oral message
| Español | recado |
|---|---|
| Português | recado |
| Français | commission |
| Русский | посла́ние poslánije, сообще́ние soobščénije, ве́сточка véstočka, весть vestʹ |
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title = {errand},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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