fare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
A prostitute's client.

verb

Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).
To proceed or progress (in a certain way).
To happen or occur (in a certain way).
To go; to travel.
To eat; to dine.

Pronunciation

/ˈfɛə/ [ˈfɛə] /ˈfeː/ [ˈfeː] /ˈfe̝ə/ [ˈfe̝ə] /ˈfiə/ [ˈfiə] /ˈfɜː/ [ˈfɜː] /ˈfɛɚ/ [ˈfɛɚ] ~ [ˈfɛɹ̩] en-us-fare.ogg /ˈfe(ː)ɹ/ [ˈfe(ː)ɹ] /ˈfɛ(ː)ɹ/ [ˈfɛ(ː)ɹ]

Word forms

fare fares faring fared

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”).

Synonyms

fare journey sith trip transportation all-nighter curb crawler gonk jane jockey john kerb crawler monger muttonmonger punter score short-timer steamer trick wapping cove whoremaster whoremonger do get along manage cope act behave measure up stack up go turn out work out develop unfold

Derived words

airfare bachelor's fare bill of fare bus fare carfare Cheesefare eelfare elver error fare evilfare excursion fare fare basis farebeater farebox fare box fare break point farecard fare card fare dodger fare-dodging fare evader fare evasion faregate fare ladder farepayer fare-paying fareway fareworthy farrand fieldfare firk flat fare half fare hellfare higher intermediate fare homefare infare Lenten fare mistake fare multifare rail fare railfare return fare seafare standard fare taxi fare taxifare the fewer the better fare thoroughfare to a fare thee well warfare welfare workfare afare airfaring farer fare thee well farewell forfare forthfare

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