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Fare

//fɛə// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "thoroughfare"

  2. 2
    an agenda of things to do wordnet
  3. 3
    Money paid for a transport ticket. countable

    "train fare"

  4. 4
    the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed wordnet
  5. 5
    A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. countable
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  1. 6
    a paying (taxi) passenger wordnet
  2. 7
    Food and drink. uncountable

    "“[…] 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.”"

  3. 8
    the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance wordnet
  4. 9
    Supplies for consumption or pleasure. uncountable

    "The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare."

  5. 10
    A prostitute's client. UK, countable, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To go, travel. archaic, intransitive

    "Behold! A knight fares forth."

  2. 2
    eat well wordnet
  3. 3
    To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. intransitive

    "How did you fare in the exam?"

  4. 4
    proceed or get along wordnet
  5. 5
    To eat, dine. archaic, intransitive

    "There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day."

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  1. 6
    To happen well, or ill. impersonal, intransitive

    "We shall see how it will fare with him."

  2. 7
    To move along; proceed; progress; advance intransitive

    "We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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