fare.
A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).
She fared badly in the accident.
Did you fare well in the exam?
Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To proceed or progress (in a certain way).
We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To happen or occur (in a certain way).
We shall see how it fares with him.
To go; to travel.
Behold! A knight fares forth.
To eat; to dine.
Where this word comes from
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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