fare

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The money you pay to travel by bus, train, taxi, or plane.

   The train fare went up again this year.

2. 2
   noun

   Food and drink, especially of a particular kind.

   The restaurant serves simple, traditional fare.

3. 3
   verb

   To do or get along in a particular way.

   She fared badly in the exam.

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”).

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