Usually means: Task or chore outside home.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word errand:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. errand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. errand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. errand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. errand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. errand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Errand, errand: Wordnik
  7. errand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. errand: Wiktionary
  9. errand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. errand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. errand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Errand, errand: Dictionary.com
  13. errand: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. errand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Errand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Errand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. errand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. errand: Rhymezone
  19. errand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. errand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. errand: Free Dictionary
  22. errand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. errand: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. errand: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ERRAND: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. errand: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
noun:  (literary or archaic) A mission or quest.
noun:  A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
noun:  The purpose of such a journey.
noun:  An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
verb:  (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
verb:  (intransitive) To go on an errand.

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