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fare

   [fair] noun, verb, fared, far·ing.
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.
EXPAND
6.
Archaic. state of things.
COLLAPSE
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.

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Farer is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English faren, Old English faran; cognate with German fahren, Old Norse fara, Gothic faran; akin to emporium, port5, pram2

Related forms
far·er, noun

Can be confused: fair, far, fare, flare (see synonym note at fair1).

Synonyms
4. See food.

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fare (fɛə)
 
—n
1.  the sum charged or paid for conveyance in a bus, train, aeroplane, etc
2.  a paying passenger, esp when carried by taxi
3.  a range of food and drink; diet
 
—vb (with it as a subject)
4.  to get on (as specified); manage: he fared well
5.  to turn out or happen as specified: it fared badly with him
6.  archaic to eat: we fared sumptuously
7.  archaic (often foll by forth) to go or travel
 
[Old English faran; related to Old Norse fara to travel, Old High German faran to go, Greek poros ford]
 
'farer
 
—n

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fare
O.E. faran "to journey, to make one's way," from P.Gmc. *faranan (cf. Goth. faran, Ger. fahren), from PIE *por- "going, passage," from base *per- "to lead, pass over" (see port (1)). Related: Fared; faring.
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