Fare
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /fɛə(ɹ)/, /fÉ›Ë(ɹ)/
- GenAm IPA: /fɛɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
- Homophones: fair
Origin 1
From the merger of Old English fær ("journey, road"), a neuter, + faru ("journey, companions, baggage"), feminine, both from faran ("to journey"), from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- ("going, passage").
Full definition of fare
Noun
fare
(plural fares)- Money paid for a transport ticket.
- A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- Food and drink.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 16, “… She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.â€
- Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
Origin 2
From Old English faran ("to journey"), from Proto-Germanic *faranÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *por- ("going, passage"). Cognates include West Frisian farre, Dutch varen, German fahren ("to travel"), Danish fare, Icelandic fara ("to go") and Swedish fara ("to travel").
Verb
- (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.
- DenhamSo fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
- 2013-07-19, Ian Sample, Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
- (intransitive) To eat, dine.
- Bible, Luke xvi. 19There was a certain rich man which ... fared sumptuously every day.
- (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.We shall see how it will fare with him.
- MiltonSo fares it when with truth falsehood contends.