fare

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

   thoroughfare

2. 2
   noun

   Money paid for a transport ticket.

   train fare

3. 3
   noun

   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.”

4. 4
   noun

   Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

   The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.

5. 5
   verb

   Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

   She fared badly in the accident.

6. 6
   verb

   To go; to travel.

   Behold! A knight fares forth.

7. 7
   verb

   To eat; to dine.

   There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.

8. 8
   noun

   an agenda of things to do

Etymology

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”).