fare
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
a person or persons who pay to be conveyed in a vehicle; paying passenger.
to experience good or bad fortune, treatment, etc.; get on: He fared well in his profession.
to go; turn out; happen (used impersonally): It fared ill with him.
to go; travel.
to eat and drink: They fared sumptuously.
Origin of fare
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All these verbs come from far-, a Germanic variant of the Proto-Indo-European root per-, por- “to cross, pass, pass over, bring through, convey.” The variant por- is the source of Latin portāre “to carry, transport,” as well as the nouns porta “gate, door, opening,” portus “a harbor, a port,” and porticus “covered walk, portico.”
In Greek, the variant por- forms the noun póros “passage, ford, narrowing,” as in the proper name Bosporus (Greek Bósporos ), literally, “Oxford.” The incorrect Latin spelling Bosphorus first appears in Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and author who was a contemporary of Cicero, and it's too late to complain about it now.
Fare in the sense “price of conveyance” appeared in Middle English, related to the Old English senses “a journey” and “to travel, go.” The meanings “to eat and drink” and “food, or the provision of food” are also first recorded in Middle English.
Other words from fare
- farer, noun
Words that may be confused with fare
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How to use fare in a sentence
Jackson fared better as an instructor of artillery, a subject he was far better at explaining.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe others have not fared as well in this theater of the absurd.
A Navy Lawyer Cries Foul on Gitmo’s Kafkaesque Legal System | Eleanor Clift | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMale politicians fared especially badly, receiving more than six times as much abuse as female politicians.
Its allies have fared little better, and even with them accounted for, a Congress-led alliance barely limps to 60 seats.
Modi Crushes Gandhi in India’s Election Landslide | Tunku Varadarajan | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDC temporarily replaced him with bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult, whose brief run fared even worse.
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The five hundred men whom we had left in San Antonio de Bexar, fared no better.
Taken for guerrillas by the inhabitants, they fared well, and much information was given them.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnThe Spanish troops fared far worse; their condition became more and more deplorable.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanBut the business of most of them that fared this way whose faring has been preserved was of a very doleful character.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperIn every instance a gift was expected from the visitor, and as a consequence the monks fared sumptuously.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy
British Dictionary definitions for fare
/ (fɛə) /
the sum charged or paid for conveyance in a bus, train, aeroplane, etc
a paying passenger, esp when carried by taxi
a range of food and drink; diet
to get on (as specified); manage: he fared well
(with it as a subject) to turn out or happen as specified: it fared badly with him
archaic to eat: we fared sumptuously
(often foll by forth) archaic to go or travel
Origin of fare
1Derived forms of fare
- farer, noun
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