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fare

/ˈfɛɚ/

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What does fare mean?

noun

  1. Money paid for a transport ticket.
  2. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  3. Food and drink.
More meanings (8)

noun

  1. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  2. (slang) A prostitute's client.
  3. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

verb

  1. To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).
  2. To proceed or progress (in a certain way).
  3. To happen or occur (in a certain way).
  4. (archaic) To go; to travel.
  5. (archaic) To eat; to dine.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈfɛɚ/

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They will not be wanted, I can tell them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
As a result of the “consultation,” Mary Joe cut the shortbread and added a dish of preserves to the bill of fare.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47
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Here he paid before a little wicket the fare to his destination with a couple of the dull, oval coins of Helium.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThuvia, maid of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #72
Then came forward those three brethren who were to fare at all adventure, and they stood before the old man saying nought.
William MorrisThe Well at the World's End: A TaleProject Gutenberg ebook #169
When Bianconi's car was put on, it did the distance daily and regularly in two hours, at a fare of two shillings.
Samuel SmilesMen of Invention and IndustryProject Gutenberg ebook #725