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Fare   /fɛr/   Listen
noun
Fare  n.  
1.
A journey; a passage. (Obs.) "That nought might stay his fare."
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.
3.
Ado; bustle; business. (Obs.) "The warder chid and made fare."
4.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. "What fare? what news abroad?"
5.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare."
6.
The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
7.
The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
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.


verb
Fare  v. i.  (past & past part. fared; pres. part. faring)  
1.
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. "So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden."
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. "So fares the stag among the enraged hounds." "I bid you most heartily well to fare." "So fared the knight between two foes."
3.
To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. "There was a certain rich man which... fared sumptuously every day."
4.
To happen well, or ill; used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. "So fares it when with truth falsehood contends."
5.
To behave; to conduct one's self. (Obs.) "She ferde (fared) as she would die."





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"Fare" Quotes from Famous Books



... Askham, who was an old Parliamentarian, on discovering the captain under whom he had served in the person of Ralph Ray, threatened of itself to betray him. With infinite perturbation he came and went, and set before Ralph and Sim such plain fare as his house could furnish after the more luxurious appetites of the Royalist visitors ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... anything tend to relieve the sombre monotony. This time we should not have a chance of receiving some little things to cheer us up and remind us that our dearest friends had thought of us. Our fare would that day be the eternal meat ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen
... stationed along the line," interrupted Willie, "an' tickets put up warnin' the passengers not to give 'em money on no account wotsomedever, on pain o' bein' charged double fare for the first offence, an' pitched over the rails into illimidibble ...
— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne
... German civilians who were residents of the Riviera were far from being discontented with their lot. Better a prison on the Ile Sainte-Marguerite than exile from the Riviera! This was better taste and wiser philosophy than we expected of Germans. One could go far and fare worse than an enforced sojourn on one of the loveliest islands of the Mediterranean, whose pine forests are reminiscent of Prinkipo. From 1914 to 1919 life was much harsher ...
— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons
... by long travelling and scanty fare, could not be forced to a rapid pace; and when night came Dick was hardly more than ...
— Dick in the Desert • James Otis


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