Meaning of Errand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
   archaic, literary
2. A mission or quest.
   archaic, literary
3. A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
4. The purpose of such a journey.
5. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

Equivalents

Examples

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

“What do you want”, said King Arthur, “and what is your mission?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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