fare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: fares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: faring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: thoroughfare
gloss: Money paid for a transport ticket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: train fare
bus fare
taxi fare
gloss: A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Food and drink.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “[…] 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.”
Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.
gloss: Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.
gloss: A prostitute's client.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
gloss: Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She fared badly in the accident.
Did you fare well in the exam?
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
There are many discomforting gaps in statistics about the book trades generally, but the reprint sector fares worst—it has no statistical summary or trend reports based on factual evidence.
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.
While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.
gloss: Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.
gloss: Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
intransitive
examples: We shall see how it fares with him.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.
gloss: To go; to travel.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Behold! A knight fares forth.
[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
I know that this was Life,—the track
⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared;
⁠And then, as now, the day prepared
The daily burden for the back.
Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon." Hereat we rejoiced and, ere an hour of the day had passed, the buildings showed plain in the offing and we asked the Captain, "What is the name of yonder city?" and he answered "By Allah I wot not, for I never saw it before and never sailed these seas in my life: but, since our troubles have ended in safety, remains for you only to land their with your merchandise and, if you find selling profitable, sell and make your market of what is there; and if not, we will rest here two days and provision ourselves and fare away.
gloss: To eat; to dine.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.
Derived words: afare
airfaring
farer
fare thee well
farewell
forfare
forthfare
illfare
misfare
nightfaring
overfare
seafaring
skyfaring
spacefaring
starfaring
wayfare
wayfaring
welfare
woefare
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