fare Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an agenda of things to do
    menu.
    • they worked rapidly down the menu of reports
  2. noun the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
    transportation.
  3. noun a paying (taxi) passenger
  4. noun the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
  5. verb proceed or get along
    do; make out; come; get along.
    • How is she doing in her new job?
    • How are you making out in graduate school?
    • He's come a long way
  6. verb eat well

WordNet

Fare intransitive verb
Etymology
AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Isel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. a way through, a ferry, strait, to convey, to go, march, beyond, on the other side, to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. Cf Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fared ; present participle & verbal noun Faring
Definitions
  1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
    So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.
  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. Denham.
    I bid you most heartily well to fare. Robynson (More's Utopia).
    So fared the knight between two foes. Hudibras.
  3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
    There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19.
  4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
    Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends. Milton.
  5. To behave; to conduct one's self. Obs.
    She ferde [fared] as she would die. Chaucer.
Fare noun
Etymology
AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.
Definitions
  1. A journey; a passage. Obs.
    That nought might stay his fare. Spenser.
  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. Chaucer.
  4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
    What fare? what news abroad ? Shak.
  5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." Dryden.
  6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. A. Drummond.
  7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

Webster 1913