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fare
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fɛər
/
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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.
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6.
Archaic
.
state of things.
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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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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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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
,
port
5
,
pram
2
Related forms
far·er,
noun
Can be confused:
fair
,
far
,
fare,
flare
(see synonym note at
fair
1
).
Synonyms
4.
See
food.
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Word Origin & History
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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