English Dictionary

errand

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɛɹənd/

名詞

古語 文語

(literary or archaic) A mission or quest. / A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

日本語の意味

（文語的または古語の意味）任務、使命、探求 / （現代の一般的な用法）家庭や業務に関するちょっとした用事、雑用

The knight rode at dawn on an errand through the haunted moor to recover the lost relic.

騎士は夜明けに失われた遺物を取り戻すという使命を帯びて、幽霊の出る湿地を駆け抜けた。

意味（1）

(literary or archaic) A mission or quest.

What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?

意味（2）

A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.

意味（3）

The purpose of such a journey.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

意味（4）

An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

I had not taught thee then the alphabet Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set And bound up, might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely and mutually.

errands （ plural ）