fare
UK/ˈfɛə/
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British/ˈfɛː/
fare noun: a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
Noun
fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)
- A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
- thoroughfare
- Money paid for a transport ticket.
- train fare
- bus fare
- Synonyms:
- transportation
- A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- Food and drink.
- “[…] 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.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- 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.1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 452
- Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
- 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.
- A prostitute's client.
- Synonyms:
- all-nighter, curb crawler, gonk, jane, jockey, john, kerb crawler, monger, muttonmonger, punter
Verb
fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past and past participle fared)
- To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).
- She fared badly in the accident.
- Did you fare well in the exam?
- To proceed or progress (in a certain way).
- 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.1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown
- Synonyms:
- do, act, behave, measure up, stack up
- To happen or occur (in a certain way).
- We shall see how it fares with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3
- To go; to travel.
- Behold! A knight fares forth.
- […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To eat; to dine.
- There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:19
fare meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fare in Hindi
- money paid for a transport ticket
- किराया kirāyā
fare in Tamil
- கட்டணம், செய்
fare in Marathi
- fare
- भाडे bhāḍe
fare in Urdu
- money paid for a transport ticket
- کِرایَہ kirāya
More languagesFewer languages
- fare in Bengali
- চড়নদার, পথখরচ, যানবাহনের ভাড়া, হওয়া
- fare in Malayalam
- യാത്രക്കൂലി, യാത്രക്കാരൻ, ഊണ്, യാത്രാപഥം
- fare in Kannada
- ಬಾಡಿಗೆ bāḍige
- fare in Punjabi
- ਭਾੜਾ bhāṛā, ਕਰਾਇਆ karāiā
- fare in Tagalog
- pasahe, bigay-ahon
- fare in Arabic
- أُجْرَة ʔujra, تَوْصِيلَة tawṣīla, مُسَافِر musāfir, سَافِر sāfir
- fare in Malay
- tambang
- fare in Thai
- ค่าโดยสาร kâa-dooi-sǎan
- fare in Vietnamese
- tiền xe, tiền đò, tiền phà
Examples of fare in a sentence
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill:
- 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.1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
- 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.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
- While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wreccker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
Synonyms of fare
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Forms of fare
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fares |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fares |
| present participle | faring |
| past participle | fared |
| past | fared |
Origin of fare
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”).
From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”). Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).
Words formed from fare
- airfare
- bachelor's fare
- bill of fare
- bus fare
- carfare
- Cheesefare
- eelfare
- elver
- error fare
- evilfare
- excursion fare
- fare basis
- farebeater
- farebox
- fare box
- fare break point
- farecard
- fare card
- fare dodger
- fare-dodging
- fare evader
- fare evasion
- faregate
- fare ladder
- farepayer
- fare-paying
- fareway
- fareworthy
- farrand
- fieldfare
- firk
- flat fare
- half fare
- hellfare
- higher intermediate fare
- homefare
- infare
- Lenten fare
- mistake fare
- multifare
- rail fare
- railfare
- return fare
- seafare
- standard fare
- taxi fare
- taxifare
- the fewer the better fare
- thoroughfare
- to a fare thee well
- warfare
- welfare
- workfare
- afare
- airfaring
- farer
- fare thee well
- farewell
- forfare
- forthfare
Phrases with fare
Words that rhyme with fare
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
- aware
Questions about fare
- What does fare mean?
- Fare means a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
- What is fare in Hindi?
- Fare in Hindi is किराया (kirāyā). See Fare meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fare in a sentence?
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
- What part of speech is fare?
- Fare can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fare?
- Fare is pronounced /ˈfɛə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fare?
- The plural of fare is fares.
Words near fare in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fare (page history and authors); fare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); भाडे (Marathi) (page history and authors); fare (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fare (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಬಾಡಿಗೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਕਰਾਇਆ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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