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Word entry · 6 letters

errand

Best crossword clue

"Short task trip"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛɹənd/Part of speech nounSorted adenrrStarts with EEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Short trip made to complete a task.

Word origin

From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).

Used in a sentence

  • What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
    “What do you want”, said King Arthur, “and what is your mission?”
  • Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
  • The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.

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