Meaning

1 senses

  1. A knight-errant.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He made the decision to become a knight-errant.

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  2. The investigation revealed that the root cause of the crash was an errant wire bridging electrical contacts.

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  3. Officials say errant fireworks are to blame for sparking the fire that destroyed a hotel next to the company's new headquarters.

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  4. Tom scolded John like an errant pupil.

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Origin

From Middle English erraunt [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman erraunt, from Old French

From Middle English erraunt [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman erraunt, from Old French errant, the present participle of errer (“to walk (to); to wander (to); (figuratively) to travel, voyage”), and then:

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Forms

plural: errants
Singularerrant
Pluralerrants

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
errerranderraticerraticallyerroneous

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