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Errand vs Grocery - What's the difference?

errand | grocery |

As nouns the difference between errand and grocery

is that errand is a trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc. while grocery is retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

As a verb errand

is to send someone on an errand.

errand

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
  • :
  • The purpose of such trip.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.

    • Derived terms

    * fool's errand * lost errand

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send someone on an errand.
    • All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
  • To go on an errand.
    • She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

    Anagrams

    * *

    grocery

    English

    (wikipedia grocery)

    Noun

    (groceries)
  • (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
  • * 1776:
    • Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
  • * 1850 , '', ''The present time
    • Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
  • A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
  • * 1854:
    • I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery , the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

    Usage notes

    When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.

    Synonyms

    * (retail foodstuffs and household supplies) commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods * (store that sells groceries) general store, grocery store, market, supermarket

    Related terms

    * greengrocer * grocer * groceries

    References