FARE

menu, fare

(noun) an agenda of things to do; “they worked rapidly down the menu of reports”

fare

(noun) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed

fare

(noun) a paying (taxi) passenger

fare, transportation

(noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

fare

(verb) eat well

do, fare, make out, come, get along

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

(obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

(countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

(uncountable) Food and drink.

(uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

(countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

Synonyms

• (journey): see journey

• (prostitute's client): see prostitute's client

Etymology 2

Verb

fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past (archaic) fore or fared, past participle (rare) faren or fared)

(intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.

(intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.

(intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.

(intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

(intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance

Anagrams

• FERA, Fear, Fera, Rafe, fear, reaf

Source: Wiktionary

Fare, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] Etym: [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Isel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. sq. root78. 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, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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