fare

[ fair ]

/ fɛər /

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noun

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.

a person who hires a public vehicle and its driver.

food; diet: hearty fare.

something offered to the public, for entertainment, enjoyment, consumption, etc.: literary fare.

Archaic. state of things.

verb (used without object), fared, far·ing.

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.

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Origin of fare

before 1000; Middle English faren, Old English faran; cognate with German fahren, Old Norse fara, Gothic faran; akin to emporium, port⁵, pram²

SYNONYMS FOR fare

4 See food.

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Related formsfar·er, noun

Can be confusedfair far fare

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After a great deal of trouble and persuasion, I prevailed upon Mr. F. Crockford to undertake it, and we made out the bill of fare.
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If I had kept thirteen pence out of his fare, the odd penny would have been usury.
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If the incensed father, who was a member of the Council, used the full severity of the law, he might fare even worse than ill.
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You can get your property again by bringing me my master's, which is fare exchange.
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From such a list of our fare, it would seem as if we over-ate ourselves as consistently as the en pension visitors at the hotels.
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British Dictionary definitions for fare

fare

/ (fɛə) /

noun

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

verb (intr)

to get on (as specified); managehe fared well

(with it as a subject) to turn out or happen as specifiedit fared badly with him

archaic to eatwe fared sumptuously

(often foll by forth) archaic to go or travel

Derived Formsfarer, noun

Word Origin for fare

Old English faran; related to Old Norse fara to travel, Old High German faran to go, Greek poros ford

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Word Origin and History for fare (1 of 2)

fare

Old English fær "journey, road, passage, expedition," strong neuter of faran "to journey" (see fare (v.)); merged with faru "journey, expedition, companions, baggage," strong fem. of faran. Original sense is obsolete, except in compounds (wayfarer, sea-faring, etc.) Meaning "food provided" is c.1200; that of "conveyance" appears in Scottish early 15c. and led to sense of "payment for passage" (1510s).

Word Origin and History for fare (1 of 2)

fare

Old English faran "to journey, set forth, go, travel, wander, get on, undergo, make one's way," from Proto-Germanic *faranan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic faran, Old Norse and Old Frisian fara, Dutch varen, German fahren), from PIE *por- "going, passage," from root *per- (2) "to lead, pass over" (see port (n.1)). Related: Fared; faring.

fare

noun

verb (used without object), fared, far·ing.

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