fare
the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
a person or persons who pay to be conveyed in a vehicle; paying passenger.
to experience good or bad fortune, treatment, etc.; get on: He fared well in his profession.
to go; turn out; happen (used impersonally): It fared ill with him.
to go; travel.
to eat and drink: They fared sumptuously.
Origin of fare
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All these verbs come from far-, a Germanic variant of the Proto-Indo-European root per-, por- “to cross, pass, pass over, bring through, convey.” The variant por- is the source of Latin portāre “to carry, transport,” as well as the nouns porta “gate, door, opening,” portus “a harbor, a port,” and porticus “covered walk, portico.”
In Greek, the variant por- forms the noun póros “passage, ford, narrowing,” as in the proper name Bosporus (Greek Bósporos ), literally, “Oxford.” The incorrect Latin spelling Bosphorus first appears in Marcus Terentius Varro, a Roman scholar and author who was a contemporary of Cicero, and it's too late to complain about it now.
Fare in the sense “price of conveyance” appeared in Middle English, related to the Old English senses “a journey” and “to travel, go.” The meanings “to eat and drink” and “food, or the provision of food” are also first recorded in Middle English.
Other words from fare
- farer, noun
Words that may be confused with fare
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How to use fare in a sentence
Uber announced last week that it would begin tacking on a $1 "Safe Rides Fee" to uberX fares in the United States.
ER vet Parminder Nagra, as CIA agent Meera Malik, fares no better.
Part of doing business as a cabbie is trolling the streets for fares.
Fares says, “hopefully this will make other groups think twice before they try to behave in the same way.”
Subsequently, Fares said, foreign funds led to division among the previously united group of anti-Assad rebels.
I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniIn ordinary times fares ranged from ₱50 saloon accommodation to ₱8 a deck passage.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThe fares were, consequently, very much lower than those of the swifter coaches, which stood at £1 1s.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperIn London, for instance, certain tramway companies double the tram-fares on Sundays.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellAll other expenses, including car fares, are paid by the members of the club using the house.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William Betts
British Dictionary definitions for fare
/ (fɛə) /
the sum charged or paid for conveyance in a bus, train, aeroplane, etc
a paying passenger, esp when carried by taxi
a range of food and drink; diet
to get on (as specified); manage: he fared well
(with it as a subject) to turn out or happen as specified: it fared badly with him
archaic to eat: we fared sumptuously
(often foll by forth) archaic to go or travel
Origin of fare
1Derived forms of fare
- farer, noun
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