Meaning of "errant" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ERRANT

From Old French: journeying, from Vulgar Latin iterāre (unattested), from Latin iter journey; influenced by Latin errāre to err.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ERRANT

errant  [ˈɛrənt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ERRANT

Errant is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ERRANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Knight-errant

A knight-errant is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels or in some other pursuit of courtly love. The template of the knight-errant are the heroes of the Round Table of the Arthurian cycle such as Gawain, Lancelot and Percival. The quest par excellence in pursuit of which these knights wander the lands is that of the Holy Grail, such as in Perceval, the Story of the Grail written by Chrétien de Troyes in the 1180s. Although the character is part of the romance genre as it developed during the late 12th century, the term "knight-errant" itself is younger, for the first time recorded in the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Knight-errantry tales remain popular with courtly audiences throughout the Late Middle Ages. They are written in Middle French, in Middle English and in Middle German. In the 16th century, the genre becomes highly popular in the Iberian Peninsula, Amadis de Gaula was one of the most successful knight-errantry tales of this period.

Definition of errant in the English dictionary

The definition of errant in the dictionary is (archaic (or literary) wandering in search of adventure. Other definition of errant is erring or straying from the right course or accepted standards.

SYNONYMS OF «ERRANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «errant» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of errant

aberrant · deviant · erring · itinerant · nomadic · offending · peripatetic · rambling · roaming · roving · sinning · wandering · wayward

TRANSLATION OF ERRANT

Find out the translation of errant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of errant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «errant» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 对不按
• Translator English - Spanish: errante
• English: errant
• Translator English - Hindi: गुमराह
• Translator English - Arabic: المطوف
• Translator English - Russian: странствующий
• Translator English - Portuguese: errante
• Translator English - Bengali: ভ্রমণরত
• Translator English - French: errant
• Translator English - Malay: Errant
• Translator English - German: fehlgeleitete
• Translator English - Japanese: 誤った
• Translator English - Korean: 잘못된
• Translator English - Javanese: Errant
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lang thang
• Translator English - Tamil: தவறு செய்கிற
• Translator English - Marathi: चुकीचा समज
• Translator English - Turkish: serseri
• Translator English - Italian: errante
• Translator English - Polish: błędny
• Translator English - Ukrainian: мандрівний
• Translator English - Romanian: rătăcitor
• Translator English - Greek: περιπλανώμενος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: errant
• Translator English - Swedish: vandrande
• Translator English - Norwegian: villfaren

6 QUOTES WITH «ERRANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word errant.

1

Don Kardong

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

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Jemima Khan

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

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Brendan I. Koerner

Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift the track into place. Because the systems operate above traffic, collisions with errant motorists are never an issue. The trains are automated, saving millions in labor costs in the long run.

4

Hilary Mantel

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

5

Timothy Noah

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

6

Philip Zimbardo

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ERRANT»

Discover the use of errant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to errant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early ...

LADIES ERRANT will interest scholars in Italian studies, women's studies, and European culture. 8 photos.

Deanna Shemek, 1998

An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

Deciphering maps as poetry, and poems as maps.

Tom Conley, 2011

Miles Errant

Miles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone ...

Lois McMaster Bujold, 2002

Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

In this richly illustrated study, Gabara introduces the concept of a modernist “ethos” to illuminate the intertwining of aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns in the work of leading Brazilian and Mexican literary figures, who were ...

Esther Gabara, 2009

Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age

In this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry—adventure travel.

David Zurick, Tim Krasnansky, 2010

Errant in Iberia

The story follows my first three years in the country, and includes: journeys through Spain, wild fiestas, bewildering confrontations with Spanish culture and family life, the renovation of a decrepit flat in Madrid's old quarter, and an ...

Ben Curtis, 2005

This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port ...

Yet the diary of her travels overland, now held in the Collection of the National Library of Australia, is a dazzling display of the paradoxes of nineteenth-century femininity by a woman who lived them - a sustained testament to the ...

Jane Franklin, Penny Russell, 2002

Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain

The concept of "errant subjects" that forms part of the title of this study speaks directly to tension between control and resistance my reading of the deathbed confession emphasizes. The last chapters show the knight errant as static and reticent, ...

Mr Ryan Prendergast, 2013

Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, ...

Throughout this revealing text, she interweaves her own words with unattributed quotations from other writings—conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other forms of prescriptive literature—in order to valorize her own identity and ...

Anne Kugler, 2002

Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: ...

According to Raybeck, the solitary dictum that best characterizes fieldwork is Things go awry.

Douglas Raybeck, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ERRANT»

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Lady wants police protection from 'errant' Karnataka minister

31-year-old Anjana Shantiveer, in her complaint to a local magistrate last week, had claimed that she had arranged for a loan of Rs 11.88 crore ... «India Today, Jul 15»

Move to take mobiles from errant motorists

Move to take mobiles from errant motorists. 10th Jul 2015 5:00 AM. 0 0. SHARE EMAIL PRINT. Have your say ... «Warwick Daily News, Jul 15»

VIDEO: Errant parker gets car moved by a forklift - please be …

We've all been there before. Walk back to your car, only to see it completely blocked by a double-parked vehicle. If you're lucky, the owner may ... «Paul Tan's Automotive News, Jul 15»

Sebi mulls action against errant MFs

Sebi chairman U.K. Sinha, addressing a recent annual mutual fund conference, hinted at imminent action against AMCs found violating ... «Livemint, Jul 15»

Bangalore: 4000 cases booked against errant BMTC drivers every …

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and other non-governmental organisations have been spending a lot of money for the ... «I am in dna of India, Jul 15»

Lincoln Mother Recovering After Being Hit By Errant Fireworks Shell

Shannon Tellier is on the mend with a broken jaw and several loose teeth after being hit in the face with a fireworks shell Friday night. «WOWT, Jul 15»

Mother takes errant driver, employer to court over child's alleged …

Mother takes errant driver, employer to court over child's alleged injuries. Tuesday, Jul 7, 2015 @ 8:30am by Carol Ostrow. A woman filed a lawsuit against a ... «Southeast Texas Record, Jul 15»

House okays six demands : Legal steps mulled against errant docs

Imphal, July 07 2015 : Altogether six demands amounting to Rs 701,38,81,000 for Health and Family Welfare, municipal administration and urban development, ... «E-Pao.net, Jul 15»

Court raises errant doctor's punishment

A general practitioner who wrongly stated the causes of death of two patients in 2010 and 2011 had his punishment raised in court yesterday. «AsiaOne, Jul 15»

Sheriff's Office: Camper Killed by "Errant Bullet"

A 60-year-old man who was camping with his family over the holiday weekend was killed by what investigators say appears to be an "errant ... «KKTV 11 News, Jul 15»