'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
- admission,
- admission fee,
- advance,
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- anchorage,
- astronaut,
- attend,
- be so,
- be such,
- become of,
- board,
- bread,
- bread and butter,
- break bread,
- brokerage,
- campaign,
- camper,
- carfare,
- cellarage,
- charge,
- charges,
- cheer,
- climber,
- come about,
- come along,
- come of,
- come on,
- come out,
- come through,
- comers and goers,
- comestibles,
- commute,
- commuter,
- contrive,
- cosmopolite,
- cost,
- count calories,
- course,
- cover charge,
- cover ground,
- creature comfort,
- cruise,
- cruiser,
- cuisine,
- daily bread,
- demand,
- develop,
- diet,
- do,
- dockage,
- dues,
- eat,
- eatables,
- edibles,
- end,
- ensue,
- entrance fee,
- eventuate,
- exaction,
- exactment,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- fall out,
- fall to,
- fare forth,
- fast food,
- feast,
- fee,
- feed,
- fetch,
- flit,
- flow,
- follow,
- food,
- food and drink,
- foodstuff,
- gang,
- get along,
- get by,
- get on,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trot,
- globe-trotter,
- go,
- go abroad,
- go along,
- go on,
- go on safari,
- go overseas,
- goer,
- hajji,
- health food,
- hie,
- hire,
- hit the trail,
- hunger,
- ingesta,
- issue,
- jaunt,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journey,
- journeyer,
- junk food,
- kitchen stuff,
- license fee,
- make,
- make a journey,
- make a pilgrimage,
- make a trip,
- make headway,
- make out,
- manage,
- mariner,
- meals,
- meat,
- mountaineer,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- palmer,
- pan out,
- partake,
- partake of,
- pass,
- passenger,
- passerby,
- pathfinder,
- peregrinate,
- pilgrim,
- pilgrimage,
- pilotage,
- pioneer,
- pitch in,
- portage,
- price,
- proceed,
- process,
- progress,
- prove,
- prove to be,
- provender,
- provision,
- provisions,
- push on,
- range the world,
- relish,
- repair,
- result,
- roll,
- roll on,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- run,
- sailor,
- salvage,
- sashay,
- savor,
- scot,
- scot and lot,
- shape up,
- shot,
- sight-see,
- sightseer,
- spread,
- stack up,
- stagger,
- storage,
- straphanger,
- stream,
- survive,
- sustenance,
- table,
- take,
- take a trip,
- take the road,
- taste,
- terminate,
- toll,
- tour,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- towage,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- transient,
- travel,
- traveler,
- traveller,
- trek,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- tucker,
- turn out,
- unfold,
- viands,
- viator,
- victuals,
- visiting fireman,
- vittles,
- voortrekker,
- voyage,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- wayfare,
- wayfarer,
- wend,
- wharfage,
- work out,
- world-traveler
Acronyms for 'FARE'
From: V.E.R.A.
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