fare

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /feɚ/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /fɛɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophone: fair

From Middle English fare, from the merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.
3. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
4. (uncountable) Food and drink.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “ […] 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.”

5. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
6. (countable, Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

• (journey): see Thesaurus:journey
• (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

• bachelor's fare
• infare
• taxi fare, taxifare

• “fare” in Eric Partridge; Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2007, →ISBN.

From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“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”).

fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past fared or (archaic) fore, past participle fared or (rare) faren)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.

   Behold! A knight fares forth.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:

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

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:

     Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon." Hereat we rejoiced and, ere an hour of the day had passed, the buildings showed plain in the offing and we asked the Captain, "What is the name of yonder city?" and he answered "By Allah I wot not, for I never saw it before and never sailed these seas in my life: but, since our troubles have ended in safety, remains for you only to land their with your merchandise and, if you find selling profitable, sell and make your market of what is there; and if not, we will rest here two days and provision ourselves and fare away.

2. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
   • 1642, John Denham, "Cooper's Hill"

     So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Luke xvi. 19

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

4. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

   We shall see how it will fare with him.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

5. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance

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

• FERA, Fear, Fera, Rafe, fear, reaf

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾɛ/

fare

1. totally, wholly, completely
2. (with negatives) at all

• IPA^(key): /faːrə/, [ˈfɑːɑ]

fare c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite farer)

1. danger, hazard
2. risk

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.

fare (imperative far, present farer, past farede or for or fór, past participle faret)

1. rush, run (originally go)

fare (imperative far, infinitive at fare, present tense farer, past tense farede, perfect tense har faret)

1. farrow

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fare

1. by the action, by the initiative, by the effort, by order

• Followed by the word de, forming the preposition fare de.

From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō, from Proto-Italic *fakiō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.re], /ˈfare/

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• Hyphenation: fà‧re
• Rhymes: -are

fare

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to act
4. (transitive) to get someone to be something

• faccenda
• facile
• facsimile

fare m (plural fari)

1. manner, way

• rafe

fāre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of for
2. second-person singular present active indicative of for

From Middle Low German vare

fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farer, definite plural farene)

1. danger

From Old Norse fara.

fare (imperative far, present tense farer, simple past for, past participle fart, present participle farende)

1. go; travel
2. rush; tear
3. (shipping) sail
4. (archaic, poetry) travel; voyage

• farbar
• farvann
• sjøfarende
• sjøfarer

• “fare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German vare

fare m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural farar, definite plural farane)

1. danger

From Old Norse fara

fare (present tense fer, past tense fór, past participle fare, passive infinitive farast, present participle farande, imperative far)

1. Alternative form of fara

• farvatn
• sjøfarande

• “fare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Polynesian *fale

fare

1. A house

fare

1. (intransitive) To do or make

• Full conjugation needed.
• Present tense:- fazze, fáce, fáce, facíme, facíte, fàcene

From Arabic فَأْرَة‎ (faʾra).

• IPA^(key): [faːɾɛ]

fare (definite accusative fareyi, plural fareler)

1. mouse
2. (computing) mouse

• sıçan

• fare in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

• IPA^(key): [fɑ̀ːɾe̞], [fä̀ːɾe̞], [fæ̀ːɾe̞]

fare m

1. vocative singular of far

• IPA^(key): [fóːɾe̞], [fɒ́ːɾe̞], [fɑ́ːɾe̞]

fare n

1. definite nominative & accusative singular of far