fare

American  

[fair] / fɛər /

noun

1. the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.

2. a person or persons who pay to be conveyed in a vehicle; paying passenger.

3. a person who hires a public vehicle and its driver.

4. food; diet.

   hearty fare.

5. something offered to the public, for entertainment, enjoyment, consumption, etc..

   literary fare.

6. Archaic. state of things.

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verb (used without object)

fared, faring

1. to experience good or bad fortune, treatment, etc.; get on.

   He fared well in his profession.

2. to go; turn out; happen (used impersonally).

   It fared ill with him.

3. to go; travel.

4. to eat and drink.

   They fared sumptuously.

fare British  

/ fɛə /

noun

1. the sum charged or paid for conveyance in a bus, train, aeroplane, etc

2. a paying passenger, esp when carried by taxi

3. a range of food and drink; diet

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verb

1. to get on (as specified); manage

   he fared well

2. to turn out or happen as specified

   it fared badly with him

3. archaic to eat

   we fared sumptuously

4. archaic (often foll by forth) to go or travel

Related Words

See food.

Other Word Forms

• farer noun

Etymology

Origin of fare

First recorded before 1000; Middle English faren, Old English faran; cognate with German fahren, Old Norse fara, Gothic faran; akin to emporium, port ⁵, pram ²

Example Sentences

Still, he added that there will be winners and losers from a “very violent technology cycle” and cautioned against judging software companies by their current revenues, which are faring relatively well.

From The Wall Street Journal

A "brazen" rail fare dodger has been fined more than £3,600 after failing to pay for a ticket on over a hundred journeys.

From BBC

Asia fared marginally better, with Hong Kong, Sydney, Seoul, Taipei and Manila up, while Shanghai, Singapore and Wellington were down.

From Barron's

Budget airlines’ low fares appeal to travelers with more limited income, and those travelers are more acutely feeling the rising cost of living and thus may have less disposable income for air travel.

From MarketWatch

Google’s commercial for its AI tool Gemini fared better than some others by following the company’s classic formula of combining product demos with emotional portraits of individual lives, she added.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• expense
• price
• tariff
• ticket
• toll