fare
noun
- going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
- money paid for a transport ticket
verb
- do in the future
- fare, manage, get along
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛə/ / [ˈfɛə̯] / [ˈfɛː]
noun
Etymology: From Middle English fare, from a merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).
- A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
“thoroughfare”
- Money paid for a transport ticket.
“train fare”
“bus fare”
- A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- Food and drink.
““[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.””
“Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.”
- Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
“The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.”
“Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.”
- A prostitute's client.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”). Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).
- Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
“She fared badly in the accident.”
“Did you fare well in the exam?”
- Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
“We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.”
“He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.”
- Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
“We shall see how it fares with him.”
“So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.”
- To go; to travel.
“Behold! A knight fares forth.”
“[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.”
- To eat; to dine.
“There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.”