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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To get along: How are you faring with your project?
  2. v. To go or happen: How does it fare with you?
  3. v. To travel; go.
  4. v. To dine; eat.
  5. n. A transportation charge, as for a bus.
  6. n. A passenger transported for a fee.
  7. n. Food and drink; diet: simple home-cooked fare.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To go; pass; move forward; proceed; travel.
  2. 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.
  3. To be entertained with food; eat and drink.
  4. To go or come out, as to result; happen; turn out; result; come to pass: with it impersonally.
  5. To conduct one's self; behave.
  6. In an expletive use, to seem; appear.
  7. n. A going; a journey; voyage; course; passage.
  8. n. A company of persons making a journey.
  9. 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.
  10. n. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle.
  11. n. Outfit for a journey; equipment.
  12. n. Food; provisions of the table.
  13. n. Experience; treatment; fortune; cheer.
  14. n. Proceeding; conduct; behavior.
  15. n. Doings; ado; bustle; tumult; stir.
  16. n. The quantity of fish taken in a fishing-vessel.
  17. n. The form or track of a hare.
  18. n. A game played with dice.
  19. n. A farrow: as, a fare of pigs.
  20. To resemble, or act like (another).

Wiktionary

  1. n. Money paid for a transport ticket.
  2. n. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  3. n. Food and drink.
  4. n. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  5. v. intransitive, archaic To go, travel
  6. v. intransitive To get along, succeed, be
  7. v. intransitive To eat, dine

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
  2. 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.
  3. v. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
  4. v. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally.
  5. v. obsolete To behave; to conduct one's self.
  6. n. obsolete A journey; a passage.
  7. n. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water
  8. n. obsolete Ado; bustle; business.
  9. n. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
  10. n. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment.
  11. n. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle.
  12. n. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a paying (taxi) passenger
  2. n. an agenda of things to do
  3. v. proceed or get along
  4. n. the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
  5. n. the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
  6. v. eat well

Etymologies

  1. 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)
  2. Middle English faren, from Old English faran; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • oroboros Contronymic in the sense: taken in (as food) vs. given out (paid as bus fare). Jan 27, 2007

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