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fare

  [fair] noun, verb, fared, far⋅ing.
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–noun
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.
–verb (used without object)
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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME faren, OE faran; c. G fahren, ON fara, Goth faran; akin to emporium, port 5 , pram 2

Related forms:
farer, noun

Synonyms:
4. See food.
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fare   (fâr)   
intr.v.   fared, far·ing, fares
  1. To get along: How are you faring with your project?
  2. To go or happen: How does it fare with you?
  3. To travel; go.
  4. To dine; eat.
n.  
  1. A transportation charge, as for a bus.
  2. A passenger transported for a fee.
  3. Food and drink; diet: simple home-cooked fare.

[Middle English faren, from Old English faran; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]
far'er n.
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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.

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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Language Translation for : fare
Spanish: tarifa, precio del billete,
German: die Fahrtkosten,
Japanese: 運賃
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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).

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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