fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə/
ipa: /fɛɚ/
ipa: /feː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiə/
ipa: /ˈfeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: fair
homophone: fear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fir
homophone: fur (both fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fares
Etymology: From Middle English fare, from a merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).
Senses: synonyms: word: fare
word: journey
word: sith
word: trip
glosses: A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
examples: text: train fare
text: bus fare
text: taxi fare
glosses: Money paid for a transport ticket.
glosses: A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
examples: text: “[…] 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.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Food and drink.
examples: text: The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
text: Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.
glosses: Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
synonyms: word: all-nighter
word: curb crawler
word: fare
word: gonk
word: jane
word: Jane
word: jockey
word: john
word: kerb crawler
word: monger
word: muttonmonger
word: punter
word: score
word: short-timer
word: steamer
word: trick
word: wapping cove
word: whoremaster
word: whoremonger
qualifier: crime
glosses: A prostitute's client.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: airfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: bachelor's fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: bill of fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: bus fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: carfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: Cheesefare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: eelfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: elver
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: error fare
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word: evilfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: excursion fare
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word: fare basis
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: farebeater
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: farebox
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: fare box
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word: fare break point
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word: farecard
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word: fare card
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word: fare dodger
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word: fare-dodging
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word: fare evader
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word: fare evasion
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word: faregate
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word: fare ladder
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word: farepayer
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: fare-paying
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word: fareway
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word: fareworthy
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: farrand
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: fieldfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: firk
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: flat fare
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word: half fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: hellfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: higher intermediate fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: homefare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: infare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: Lenten fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: mistake fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: multifare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: rail fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: railfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: return fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: seafare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: standard fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: taxi fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: taxifare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: the fewer the better fare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: thoroughfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: to a fare thee well
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: warfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: welfare
sense: Terms derived from fare (noun)
word: workfare