1. A short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another.
2. the purpose or object of such a trip: your errand was to mail the letter.
3. archaic A mission; an embassy.
4. archaic an oral message that has been entrusted to one.

1. A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
2. the purpose of such trip.
3. an oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
4. to send someone on an errand.
5. to go on an errand.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A mission.

1. an obsolete variant of arrant.
2. 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.

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