Fare
[feə] or [fɛr]
Definition
(noun.) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed.
(noun.) a paying (taxi) passenger.
(noun.) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance.
(verb.) eat well.
Edited by Leah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
(n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
(n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
(v.) A journey; a passage.
(v.) 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.
(v.) Ado; bustle; business.
(v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
(v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
(v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
(v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Go, pass, travel, journey.[2]. Be situated (with respect to what may befall one), be treated.[3]. Feed, be entertained.
n. [1]. Charge (for conveyance of a person), passage money, price of a ticket.[2]. Food, provisions, victuals, commons.[3]. Quantity of fish caught.
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:[See DO], live, feed, subsist, speed
ANT:Toil, fast, fail, droop, sink, drop, faint, halt, falter
SYN:Provision, passage, money
ANT:Starvation, famine, abstinence, pauperism, mendicity
Checked by Karol
Definition
v.i. to get on or succeed: to happen well or ill to: to be in any particular state to be to go on: to feed.—n. the price of passage—(orig.) a course or passage: those conveyed in a carriage: food or provisions for the table.—interj. Farewell′ may you fare well! a wish for safety or success.—n. well-wishing at parting: the act of departure.—adj. parting: final.
Checker: Lowell
Examples
- Ti imparano fare brutte cose, brutte cose--' She lifted the Mino's white chin on her forefinger, slowly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My companion will be of the same nature as myself, and will be content with the same fare. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Country fare for a country man, you know. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The coachman instantly drove off as soon as he had got his fare: the watermen commenced a struggle for me and my trunk. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All these airs in a land where they would as soon expect to leave the soup out of the bill of fare as the wine! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In one hand he bore a light, in the other a receptacle containing a gruel-like mixture--the common prison fare of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Have your fare ready, and the instant that your cab stops, dash through the Arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at a quarter-past nine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But when he went out campaigning before the people he talked only of three-cent fares and the tax outrages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We haven't fared nohows, but fared to thrive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The doctor came in too, to see how it fared with Johnny. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So, keeping to byways, and shunning human approach, this troublesome old woman hid herself, and fared on all through the dreary day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Old Betty Higden fared upon her pilgrimage as many ruggedly honest creatures, women and men, fare on their toiling way along the roads of life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How fared my intercourse with the sumptuous H?tel Crécy? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And he has fared hard, and worked hard to make good everybody's loss. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There's one thing about you, T'otherest Governor,' said Riderhood, faring on again, 'as looks well and goes fur. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the left, however, Osterhaus was not faring so well. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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