fare

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: menu transportation do make out come get along

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

an agenda of things to do“they worked rapidly down the menu of reports”Synonyms: menu
the sum charged for riding in a public conveyanceSynonyms: transportation
a paying (taxi) passenger
the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed

Verb (2)

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”Synonyms: do make out come get along
eat well

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Fare \Fare\ (f[^a]r), 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. [1913 Webster]

So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.— Denham.[1913 Webster]

I bid you most heartily well to fare.— Robynson (More's Utopia).[1913 Webster]

So fared the knight between two foes.— Hudibras.[1913 Webster]

3.To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. [1913 Webster]

There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day.— Luke xvi. 19.[1913 Webster]

4.To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. [1913 Webster]

So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

5.To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

She ferde [fared] as she would die.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Fare \Fare\, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.]

1.A journey; a passage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

That nought might stay his fare.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

The warder chid and made fare.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

4.Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. [1913 Webster]

What fare? what news abroad ?— Shak.[1913 Webster]

5.Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

6.The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. --A. Drummond. [1913 Webster]

7.The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. [1913 Webster]

Bill of fare. See under Bill.

Fare indicator or Fare 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. [1913 Webster]