errand
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).
Inflected forms:
form: errands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arrand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: errands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erranding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: erranded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: erranded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: arrand
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
literary
examples: 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.
gloss: A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The purpose of such a journey.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: To send someone on an errand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
gloss: To go on an errand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
Derived words: errand boy
errand-ghost
errand ghost
errandy
fool's errand
idiot's errand
lost errand
make an errand
run an errand
sleeveless errand
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مشور
roman: mišwār
lang: Bashkir
word: йомош
roman: yomoş
lang: Catalan
word: diligència
lang: Catalan
word: encàrrec
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 使命
roman: shǐmìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 任務 /任务
roman: rènwu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 差使
roman: chāishǐ
lang: Danish
word: ærinde
lang: Dutch
word: boodschap
lang: Finnish
word: juttu
lang: Finnish
word: juokseva asia
lang: Finnish
word: tehtävä
lang: French
word: course
lang: Galician
word: mandado
lang: Galician
word: encarga
lang: Galician
word: recado
lang: Galician
word: encomenda
lang: German
word: Besorgung
lang: German
word: Auftrag
lang: Hebrew
word: שְׁלִיחוּת
roman: shliẖút
lang: Hungarian
word: út
lang: Hungarian
word: megbízatás
lang: Hungarian
word: megbízás
lang: Hungarian
word: küldetés
lang: Irish
word: teachtaireacht
lang: Italian
word: commissione
lang: Italian
word: ambasciata
lang: Italian
word: incombenza
lang: Japanese
word: お使い
roman: o-tsukai
lang: Japanese
word: 使命
roman: shimei
lang: Jeju
word: 부름씨
roman: bureumssi
lang: Kazakh
word: іс сапар
roman: ıs sapar
lang: Korean
word: 심부름
roman: simbureum
lang: Middle English
word: erende
lang: Portuguese
word: encargo
lang: Russian
word: поруче́ние
roman: poručénije
lang: Russian
word: командиро́вка
roman: komandiróvka
lang: Russian
word: зада́ние
roman: zadánije
lang: Spanish
word: recado
lang: Spanish
word: mandado
lang: Swedish
word: ärende
lang: Turkish
word: edinme
lang: Turkish
word: tedarik
lang: Ukrainian
word: побігашка
roman: pobihaška
lang: Welsh
word: neges
lang: Yoruba
word: iṣẹ́