'FARE' definitions:

Definition of 'fare'

(from WordNet)
noun
An agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports" [syn: menu, fare]
noun
The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance [syn: fare, transportation]
noun
A paying (taxi) passenger
noun
The food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
verb
Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along]
verb
Eat well

Definition of 'Fare'

From: GCIDE
  • Fare \Fare\ (f[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through, ??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. [root]78. Cf. Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.]
  • 1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. [1913 Webster]
  • So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill. [1913 Webster]
  • So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
  • So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. [1913 Webster]
  • There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi. 19. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. [1913 Webster]
  • So fares it when with truth falsehood contends. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Fare'

From: GCIDE
  • Fare \Fare\, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.]
  • 1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • That nought might stay his fare. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The warder chid and made fare. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. [1913 Webster]
  • What fare? what news abroad ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. --A. Drummond. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. [1913 Webster]
  • Bill of fare. See under Bill.
  • Fare indicator or Fare register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc.
  • Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. --Knight. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'fare'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'fare'

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