ADJ
little, simple
VERB + ERRAND
do, go on, run
My mother asked me to run an errand at the supermarket before coming home.
send sb on
I need to run to the store, but first my mom is sending me on a quick errand.
PREP
on an ~
My father is out on an errand to pick up groceries from the supermarket.
noun
A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
I'm going to town on some errands.
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.
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
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.
A foolish undertaking, especially one that is purposeless, fruitless, nonsensical, or certain to fail.
If I were to travel only that I might be discontented with that which I can get at home, methinks I should go but on a fool's errand.
Synonym of fool's errand.
The detective expressed his conviction that they were both on a lost errand. He was convinced that the boy would not make his appearance; although when pressed by Clive to do so, h
Synonym of fool's errand.
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What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
WiktionaryFew have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed a
WiktionaryThe errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
WiktionaryAll the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
WiktionaryShe spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
WiktionaryTom was sent on an errand to the store.
Tatoeba · #37251i Register
In some senses, errand is marked as archaic, literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.