ERRAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does errand mean? 

• ERRAND (noun)
  The noun ERRAND has 1 sense:

1. a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

  Familiarity information: ERRAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERRAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("errand" is a kind of...):

trip (a journey for some purpose (usually including the return))

 Context examples 

Then tea must be got, errands done, and one or two necessary bits of sewing neglected until the last minute.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I noted him, and the energy with which he walked but he passed from my mind again as I hurried on upon my errand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finding himself upon a dangerous errand, our pioneer has left this sign so that any party which follows him may know the way he has taken.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But it is not a foolish errand, nor an idle one," replied the Scarecrow; "it is important. And we have been told that Oz is a good Wizard."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Errand! To me! How shall I tell you!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Activities: are you able to run errands and shop?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Run Errands and Shop, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, I've another errand for you, said my untiring master; you must away to my room again.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had not, at first, the courage to ring at the gate; and when I did ring, my errand seemed to me to be expressed in the very sound of the bell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The whip flashed out, here and there, on its merciless errands.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)