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[fair] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, fared, far·ing.
[fair] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, fared, far·ing. –noun
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle. |
| 2. | a person or persons who pay to be conveyed in a vehicle; paying passenger. |
| 3. | a person who hires a public vehicle and its driver. |
| 4. | food; diet: hearty fare. |
| 5. | something offered to the public, for entertainment, enjoyment, consumption, etc.: literary fare. |
| 6. | Archaic. state of things. |
| 7. | to experience good or bad fortune, treatment, etc.; get on: He fared well in his profession. |
| 8. | to go; turn out; happen (used impersonally): It fared ill with him. |
| 9. | to go; travel. |
| 10. | to eat and drink: They fared sumptuously. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| fare
(fâr) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. fared, far·ing, fares
n.
[Middle English faren, from Old English faran; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.] far'er n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fare (n.)
fare (n.)
O.E. fær "journey, road," strong neut. of faran "to journey" (see fare (v.)); merged with faru "journey, expedition, companions, baggage," strong fem. of faran. Original sense is obsolete, except in compounds (wayfarer, sea-faring, etc.) Meaning of "food provided" is c.1205; that of "conveyance" appears in Scot. c.1425 and led to sense of "payment for passage" (1514).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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fare (v.)
fare (v.)
O.E. faran "to journey, to make one's way," from P.Gmc. *faranan (cf. Goth. faran, Ger. fahren), from PIE *por- "going, passage" (cf. Skt. piparti "brings over," Gk. poros "passage, way," L. peritus "experienced").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| fare | |
noun | |
| 1. | an agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports" [syn: menu] |
| 2. | the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance |
| 3. | a paying (taxi) passenger |
| 4. | the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed |
verb | |
| 1. | proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do] |
| 2. | eat well |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Fare
Fare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through, ??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. [root]78. Cf. Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.]1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. --Milton. 2. 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. I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson (More's Utopia). So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras. 3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi. 19. 4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends. --Milton. 5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.] She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer.
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Fare
Fare\, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.]1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.] That nought might stay his fare. --Spenser. 2. 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. 3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.] The warder chid and made fare. --Chaucer. 4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare? what news abroad ? --Shak. 5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." --Dryden. 6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. --A. Drummond. 7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. Bill of fare. See under Bill. Fare indicator or register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. --Knight.
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