fare

1 of 2

verb

ˈfer How to pronounce fare (audio)
fared; faring
Synonyms of farenext

intransitive verb

1
: get along, succeed
how did you fare on your exam?
2
: go, travel
3
: eat, dine

fare

2 of 2

noun

1
a
: the price charged to transport a person
b
: a paying passenger on a public conveyance
2
a
: range of food : diet
b
: material provided for use, consumption, or enjoyment

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Examples of fare in a Sentence

Verb The Mystery Maid, a halibut and black cod schooner, had fared badly of late and was in the process of being overhauled. — David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars, 1994
… genuinely new creations do not usually fare well with mainstream publishers in any age. — Erica Jong, New York Times Book Review, 5 June 1988
Back upstairs, I put on a gold lamé dress and fared forth to the first big dinner of 1968 … — Lady Bird Johnson 25 Jan. 1968, in A White House Diary,  1970
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Verb
Our dashboard How Low Can Stocks Go During A Market Crash captures how key stocks fared during and after the last six market crashes. — Trefis Team, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 Even scientists with existing funding are left wondering if their projects — from transgender health to learning why white breast cancer patients in Oklahoma fare worse than Black patients in Massachusetts — will be caught in Trump’s anti-diversity crackdown. — Lauran Neergaard and Kasturi Pananjady, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
Poolside Pan-Asian fare is available at Bam Bam, while casual options include Bar 50 and Grove Boutique & Café. — Kaila Yu, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 Nordahl and co-writer Rasmus Birch mostly keep the stakes high and the drama involving without sinking into histrionics; the resulting film, recently premiered in Berlin’s Panorama strand, is relatable and broadly distributable arthouse fare. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fare

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Middle English faren, from Old English faran; akin to Old High German faran to go, Latin portare to carry, Greek peran to pass through, poros passage, journey

Noun

Middle English, journey, passage, supply of food, from Old English faru, fær; akin to Old English faran to go

First Known Use

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Noun

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a

Time Traveler
The first known use of fare was before the 12th century

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fare

1 of 2 verb
ˈfa(ə)r How to pronounce fare (audio)
ˈfe(ə)r
fared; faring
1
: go entry 1 sense 1, travel
2
: to proceed toward a goal : succeed
fared well on the test
3
: eat sense 1, dine

fare

2 of 2 noun
1
: food sense 1
a café serving light fare
2
a
: the money a person pays to travel by public transportation (as a bus)
b
: a person paying a fare : passenger

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