Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To get along: How are you faring with your project?
- v. To go or happen: How does it fare with you?
- v. To travel; go.
- v. To dine; eat.
- n. A transportation charge, as for a bus.
- n. A passenger transported for a fee.
- n. Food and drink; diet: simple home-cooked fare.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To go; pass; move forward; proceed; travel.
- To go or get on, as to circumstances; speed; be in a certain state; be attended with certain circumstances or events; be circumstanced; specifically, to be in a certain condition as regards fortune, or bodily or social comforts.
- To be entertained with food; eat and drink.
- To go or come out, as to result; happen; turn out; result; come to pass: with it impersonally.
- To conduct one's self; behave.
- In an expletive use, to seem; appear.
- n. A going; a journey; voyage; course; passage.
- n. A company of persons making a journey.
- n. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveyance by land or water: as, the fare for crossing by a ferry; the fare for conveyance in a railroad-train, cab, omnibus, etc.
- n. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle.
- n. Outfit for a journey; equipment.
- n. Food; provisions of the table.
- n. Experience; treatment; fortune; cheer.
- n. Proceeding; conduct; behavior.
- n. Doings; ado; bustle; tumult; stir.
- n. The quantity of fish taken in a fishing-vessel.
- n. The form or track of a hare.
- n. A game played with dice.
- n. A farrow: as, a fare of pigs.
- To resemble, or act like (another).
Wiktionary
- n. Money paid for a transport ticket.
- n. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- n. Food and drink.
- n. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
- v. intransitive, archaic To go, travel
- v. intransitive To get along, succeed, be
- v. intransitive To eat, dine
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
- v. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate.
- v. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
- v. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally.
- v. obsolete To behave; to conduct one's self.
- n. obsolete A journey; a passage.
- n. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water
- n. obsolete Ado; bustle; business.
- n. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
- n. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment.
- n. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle.
- n. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a paying (taxi) passenger
- n. an agenda of things to do
- v. proceed or get along
- n. the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
- n. the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
- v. eat well
Etymologies
- From Old English faran ("to journey"), from Proto-Germanic *faranan, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”). Cognates include West Frisian farre, Dutch varen, German fahren ("to travel"), Danish fare, Icelandic fara ("to go") and Swedish fara ("to travel"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English faren, from Old English faran; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The bus driver getting in a fight with someone over their fare is the last thing I need in my bus ride.”
“But if she stays through Saturday night, the fare is about $250, NYT reports.”
“The rest of the fare is apparently low-end clothing and goodies from the USA and some used stuff.”
“If the fare is a stupid amount, like $1.35, it greatly adds to the inconvenience factor of riding transit.”
“If I recall the fare is 5 pesos - as opposed to about 150 pesos for a cab ride.”
“Bus fare is about half as much as taxi fare, which is usually under one dollar U.S.”
“Middle of the block, middle of a controlled intersection, twenty yards past the last passenger pickup: no matter, a fare is a fare.”
“However strange such variations are, Mr. Arima insists he learned them all from housewives during his research stints in Italy -- where, like many a Japanese cook-in-training, he was seduced away from a prior interest in French fare by the warmth of the culture.”
“Now, once more, farewell; in the true sense of the word fare-thee-well!”
“AA also has a short-term fare sale, with tix starting at $39 each way plus taxes and fees, that requires booking before midnight Thursday for travel March 15-May 25 midweek.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fare’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 141 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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for words
based upon per- indo-european root
turnverein, veer, frump, far, per, paramount, paramour, parget, parterre, parvenu, perissodactyl, palanquin and 133 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 112
hop, grab, rip, waylay, tale, alongside, trick, sticker, bumper, lean, pursuit, rear and 38 more...
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Food!
grub, eats, prog, fare, cates, viands, victuals, fodder, edibles, ingesta, aliment, rations and 9 more...
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f by four
four, five, free, fair, fund, flee, flea, flue, felt, farm, fuzz, flex and 52 more...
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Remember Me (2010)
Words from a 2010 'Remember Me' film.
voluptuous, stop by, on a tear, take a hike, matriculate, banish, thresh, space out, flip the script, incarcerate, trample, off chance and 30 more...
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Unit 1 Week 1
"Goin Someplace Special"
scald, permission, autograph, fare, blurted, clenched, approached, spectacular, propaganda
Tweets
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oroboros Contronymic in the sense: taken in (as food) vs. given out (paid as bus fare). Jan 27, 2007