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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FARE, v.i. [This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. to go, to pass.]
1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes of Eden.
[In this literal sense the word is not in common use.]
2. To be in any state, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate.
So fares the stag among th' enraged hounds.
So fared the knight between two foes.
He fared very well; he fared very ill.
Go further and fare worse. The sense is taken from going, having a certain course; hence, being subjected to a certain train of incidents. The rich man fared sumptuously every day. He enjoyed all the pleasure which wealth and luxury could afford. Luke 16.
3. To feed; to be entertained. We fared well; we had a good table, and courteous treatment.
4. To proceed in a train of consequences, good or bad.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
5. To happen well or ill; with it impersonally. We shall see how it will fare with him.
FARE, n.
1. 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, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare. The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money. Fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.
2. Food; provisions of the table. We lived on coarse fare, or we had delicious fare.
3. The person conveyed in a vehicle. [Not in use in United States.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (fared; faring) Etymology: 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 Date: before 12th century 1. go, travel 2. get along, succeed <how did you fare on your exam?> 3. eat, dine II. noun Etymology: Middle English, journey, passage, supply of food, from Old English faru, fær; akin to Old English faran to go Date: 15th century 1. a. range of food ; diet b. material provided for use, consumption, or enjoyment 2. a. the price charged to transport a person b. a paying passenger on a public conveyance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a the price a passenger has to pay to be conveyed by bus, train, etc. b a passenger paying to travel in a public vehicle. 2 a range of food provided by a restaurant etc. --v.intr. literary 1 progress; get on (how did you fare?). 2 happen; turn out. 3 journey, go, travel. Phrases and idioms: fare-stage Brit. 1 a section of a bus etc. route for which a fixed fare is charged. 2 a stop marking this. Etymology: OE fær, faru journeying, faran (v.), f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fare Fare, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & 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. [root]78. Cf. Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fare Fare, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.] 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. Bill of fare. See under Bill. Fare indicator or 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. --Knight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fare Fare, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.] 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. Bill of fare. See under Bill. Fare indicator or 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. --Knight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(fares, faring, fared) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A fare is the money that you pay for a journey that you make, for example, in a bus, train, or taxi. He could barely afford the railway fare. ...taxi fares. N-COUNT 2. The fare at a restaurant or café is the type of food that is served there. (WRITTEN) The fare has much improved since Hugh has taken charge of the kitchen. ...traditional Portuguese fare in a traditional setting. 3. If you say that someone or something fares well or badly, you are referring to the degree of success they achieve in a particular situation or activity. It is unlikely that the marine industry will fare any better in September... = do VERB: V adv

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

far: Occurs twice in the Old Testament as the translation of two Hebrew words, shalom, "peace," "prosperity," "completeness" (1Sa 17:18), found in the section on David's family history omitted by the Septuagint translators, and sakhar, "hire," "reward," Septuagint naulon, "passage-money," "fare" (Jon 1:3). In Hebrew both words are substantives; in English the former is a verb meaning "to go," or "get on as to circumstances" (Century Dict.), the latter, a substantive meaning the price which Jonah paid for a sea-voyage to Tarshish.

In Apocrypha the English verb "fare" helps in the translation of three Greek words, kakoo, "fare evil" (the Revised Version (British and American) "fare ill"), Sirach 3:26; elattoo, "fare worse" (the Revised Version (British and American) "suffer loss"), 32:24; rhonnumi, "be strong," "prosper," in 2 pers. (singular) imperat. (err(h)oso) or plural (err(h)osthe) as a farewell salutation, or at the close of a letter, or to describe the welfare (usually physical or social) of a friend (2 Macc 9:20; 11:21,28, etc.). Compare Ac 15:29; 23:30 margin.

In the New Testament the English verb "fare," in addition to its occurrence in the word "farewell" (which see), occurs only once (Lu 16:19), where it is said that the rich man "fared sumptuously every day" (the Revised Version, margin "living in mirth and splendor every day").

The Greek is euphrainomai, "be merry," and occurs 14 times in the New Testament, 10 in a good sense (Lu 15:23,14,29,32, all referring to the merry-making over the return of the lost son; Ac 2:26, translation of Hebrew samach, "be glad"; Ro 15:10, translation of Hebrew ranah, "to sing"; 2Co 2:2; Ga 4:27, translation of Hebrew ranah, "to sing"; Re 12:12; 18:20); 4 in a bad, or less favorable, sense (Lu 12:19; 16:19; Ac 7:41; Re 11:10). The Greek word is variously translated in the New Testament, "be merry," "make merry," "be glad," "rejoice," "make glad," and only once "fare" (Lu 16:19). In the last passage it means the general physical and material welfare of the rich man (so the Geneva (1560), the Bishops' and Rhemish Bibles, the Revised Version (British and American) (1881), and not simply partaking of rich food so Vulgate, Wyclif, Coverdale, Cranmer, Geneva (1557) and the King James Version). Luther translates Lu 16:19, "lebte alle Tage herrlich und in Freuden"; Weizsacker, "genoss sein Leben alle Tage in Glanze"; Ostervald, "se traitoit bien et magnifiquement"; Oltremare, "faisait brillante chere"; Segond, "menait joyeuse et brillante vie"; Weymouth, "enjoyed a splendid banquet every day," all of which virtually agree with the view taken by us as to meaning of "fare." The lampros, "sumptuously," shows that the rich man's manner of living was "brilliant," "magnificent." the Revised Version (British and American) has "fare" for "do" (Ac 15:36), "fared" for "did" (2Sa 11:7), "hath fared" for "was" (Ge 30:29).

Charles B. Williams

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Go, pass, travel, journey. 2. Be situated (with respect to what may be fall one), be treated, prosper, prove, happen, turn out. 3. Feed, be entertained. II. n. 1. Charge (for conveyance of a person), passage-money, price of a ticket. 2. Passenger or passengers. 3. Victuals, commons, provisions. See food. 4. Condition, experience, fortune, luck, outcome. 5. Quantity of fish caught.

Foolish Dictionary

The cost of a ride. See old adage, "Only the brave can work their fare."

Moby Thesaurus

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