errand

Speech parts

1. errand - Noun

2. errand - Verb

Meaning

A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

commission service business mission message job task duty trip delivery assignment undertaking chore work word
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Antonyms

result fire holiday hobby vacation sack
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Hypernyms

trip

Phrases with the word

encouraging errand productive errand bootless errand advantageous errand fruitful errand profitable errand

Anagrams

darner renard Ardern Darren Radner redarn

Examples

You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow Wilson

Riddle of destiny, who can show; What thy short visit meant, or know; What thy errand here below. Charles Lamb

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. Ezra Stiles

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. Yunus Emre

If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand. Spanish Proverb

The king's errand may come in the cadger's gate. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

errabund Erraid errancy errand boy errand person errand-ghost