fare
/ˈfɛə/ noun, verb
Forms fares faring fared
- noun (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. “thoroughfare”
- noun (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket. “train fare”
- noun (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- noun (uncountable) Food and drink.
- noun (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure. “The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.”
- noun (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
- verb To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind). “She fared badly in the accident.”
- verb To proceed or progress (in a certain way). “We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.”
- verb (impersonal) To happen or occur (in a certain way). “We shall see how it fares with him.”
- verb (archaic) To go; to travel. “Behold! A knight fares forth.”
- verb (archaic) To eat; to dine.
Synonyms
journey sith trip transportation all-nighter curb crawler gonk jane jockey john kerb crawler monger muttonmonger punter score short-timer solicitor steamer trick wapping cove menu do make out come get along
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”).
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
- verb 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; as, he fared well, or ill. So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. Denham.
- noun A journey; a passage. [Obs.]
- noun The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
Etymology [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Isel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. sq. root78. Cf Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.]
Etymology [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fare”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details