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n. A short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another.

n. The purpose or object of such a trip: Your errand was to mail the letter.

n. Archaic A mission; an embassy.

n. Archaic An oral message that has been entrusted to one.

n. A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

n. The purpose of such trip.

n. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

v. To send someone on an errand.

v. To go on an errand.

n. 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. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

n. Any specific task, usually of a routine nature, requiring some form of travel, usually locally. An errand is often on behalf of someone else, but sometimes for one's own purposes.

n. A mission.

n. A special business intrusted to a messenger; a verbal charge or message; a mandate or order; something to be told or done: as, the servant was sent on an errand; he told his errand; he has done the errand.

An obsolete variant of arrant.

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

"~To this my errand~, etc., _i. e._ in comparison with this errand of mine and the anxiety it involved."

trip   

gawk's errand   

mission   

fool's errand    lost errand   

mission    business    commission    message    mission    trip   

predicament    tidings    undertake    doings    task    occupation    deed    wish    occurrence    quest