errand

C2+ Topic:Travel

US /ˈɛɹənd/ See IPA manual

Freq #8796

Meanings

1

noun
A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.

What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
2

noun
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. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
3

noun
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.
4

verb
To send someone on an errand.

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

Verb forms

Verb forms are not available for this word yet.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a journey undertaken to... run

Word family

Derived forms errand-ghosterrandy

Etymology

From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).

Topics

Travel

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# errand

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈɛɹənd/
**Frequency rank:** 8796

## Meanings
1. A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
2. The purpose of such a journey.
3. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
4. To send someone on an errand.

## Examples
- What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
- 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.
- 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.
- All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.

## Derived Forms
- errand-ghost
- errandy

## Etymology
From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).

## Topics
- Travel

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