fare

noun

1. 1

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

   thoroughfare

2. 2

   Money paid for a transport ticket.

   train fare

   bus fare

   taxi fare

3. 3

   A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

4. 4

   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.”

   Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.

5. 5

   Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

   The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.

   Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.

6. 6

   slangA prostitute's client.

verb

1. 1

   Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).

   She fared badly in the accident.

   Did you fare well in the exam?

   So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

   There are many discomforting gaps in statistics about the book trades generally, but the reprint sector fares worst—it has no statistical summary or trend reports based on factual evidence.

2. 2

   Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To proceed or progress (in a certain way).

   We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.

   He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.

3. 3

   Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement]. To happen or occur (in a certain way).

   We shall see how it fares with him.

   So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

   Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.

4. 4

   archaicTo go; to travel.

   Behold! A knight fares forth.

   […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.

   I know that this was Life,—the track ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared; ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.

5. 5

   archaicTo eat; to dine.

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

Forms

plural

fares

past tense

fared

past participle

fared

present participle

faring

third person singular

fares