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fare

noun
/ˈfɛə/UK/ˈfeː//ˈfɛɚ/US

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”).

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “a going, passage”
  2. inherited from *faraną✻
  3. inherited from *faran✻
  4. inherited from faran — “to travel, journey”
  5. inherited from faren

Definitions

  1. A going

    A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

    • thoroughfare

  2. Money paid for a transport ticket.

    • train fare
    • bus fare
    • taxi fare

  3. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. A prostitute's client.

    4. Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

      • She fared badly in the accident.
      • Did you fare well in the exam?
      • So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

    5. To go

      To go; to travel.

      • Behold! A knight fares forth.
      • […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
      • I know that this was Life,—the track ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared; ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.

    6. To eat

      To eat; to dine.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fare. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA