Standard Lemma guide

fare

noun · verb · 17 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɛə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈfɛə̯]
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈfɛː]
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈfɛː/
  • British, Southern, Standard: [ˈfɛː]
  • Australian: /ˈfeː/
  • Australian: [ˈfeː]
  • /ˈfeə/ without the cheer–chair merger
  • [ˈfe̝ə] without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ˈfiə/ cheer–chair merger
  • [ˈfiə] cheer–chair merger
  • /ˈfɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • [ˈfɜː(ɹ)] Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈfɛɚ/
  • Canada, General-American: [ˈfɛɚ] ~ [ˈfɛɹ̩]
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /ˈfeɾ/
  • Scotland: [ˈfe(ː)ɾ]
  • rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
  • homophone: fair
  • homophone: fear (cheer–chair merger)
  • homophone: fir
  • homophone: fur (both fair–fur merger)
  • CMU ARPABET: F EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

  • thoroughfare

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fare, journey, sith, trip

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Money paid for a transport ticket.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • train fare
  • bus fare
  • taxi fare

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transportation

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Food and drink.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
  • Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A prostitute's client.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, slang

Qualifier: crime

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: all-nighter, curb crawler, fare, gonk, jane, jockey, john, kerb crawler, monger, muttonmonger, punter, score, short-timer, solicitor, steamer, trick, wapping cove, whoremaster, whoremonger

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

To experience luck, fortune or treatment (of a certain kind).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • She fared badly in the accident.
  • Did you fare well in the exam?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do, get along, manage, cope

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

To proceed or progress (in a certain way).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do, act, behave, measure up, stack up

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

To happen or occur (in a certain way).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: impersonal, intransitive

Examples

  • We shall see how it fares with him.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: go, turn out, work out, develop, unfold

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To go; to travel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, intransitive

Examples

  • Behold! A knight fares forth.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To eat; to dine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

an agenda of things to do

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they worked rapidly down the menu of reports

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: menu

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: agenda, docket, schedule

13

noun

Meaning 13

the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: food, nutrient

Narrower terms: diet, dietary, menu, chow, chuck, eats, grub, board, table, ration

14

noun

Meaning 14

a paying (taxi) passenger

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: passenger, rider

15

noun

Meaning 15

the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: transportation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: charge

Narrower terms: airfare, bus fare, carfare, cab fare, taxi fare, train fare

16

verb

Meaning 16

eat well

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: eat

17

verb

Meaning 17

proceed or get along

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • How is she doing in her new job?
  • How are you making out in graduate school?
  • He's come a long way

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do, make out, come, get along

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: proceed, go

History

Etymology

From Middle English fare, from a merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”). Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).

Across languages

Translations

143 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • German: Reise — voyage
  • Russian: пое́здка (pojézdka) — voyage
  • Russian: путеше́ствие (putešéstvije) — voyage
  • Arabic: أُجْرَة (ʔujra) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Arabic: تَوْصِيلَة (tawṣīla) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Azerbaijani: gediş haqqı — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Central Bikol: pliti — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Bulgarian: цена́ на биле́т (cená na bilét) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Catalan: tarifa — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Chinese Mandarin: 車費 /车费 (chēfèi) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Czech: jízdné — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Danish: billetpris — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Dutch: veergeld — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Dutch: veerloon — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Dutch: vervoersprijs — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Finnish: ajomaksu — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Finnish: matkalipun hinta — money paid for a transport ticket
  • French: tarif — money paid for a transport ticket
  • French: prix — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Galician: tarifa — money paid for a transport ticket
  • German: Fahrpreis — money paid for a transport ticket
  • German: Fahrgebühr — money paid for a transport ticket
  • German: Fracht — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Greek: ναύλα (návla) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Ancient Greek: ναῦλος (naûlos) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Hebrew: דמי נסיעה (dmey nesiá) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Hebrew: תעריף (taaríf) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Hindi: किराया (kirāyā) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Italian: tariffa — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Italian: prezzo — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Japanese: 料金 (ryōkin) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Japanese: 運賃 (unchin) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Khmer: តម្លៃ (tɑmlay) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Korean: 요금 (yogeum) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Korean: 료금 (ryogeum) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Korean: 운임 (unim) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Lao: ຄ່າລົດ (khā lot) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Lao: ຄ່າໂດຍສານ (khā dōi sān) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Latin: naulum — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Malay: tambang — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Norwegian Bokmål: billettpris — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Iranian Persian: کِرایِه (kerâye) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Portuguese: tarifa — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Rohingya: keriya — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Romanian: tarif — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Romanian: bilet — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Russian: пла́та за прое́зд (pláta za projézd) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Russian: цена́ биле́та (cená biléta) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Spanish: pasaje — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Swedish: taxa — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Swedish: biljettpris — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Swedish: tariff — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Tagalog: pasahe — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Tagalog: bigay-ahon — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Thai: ค่าโดยสาร (kâa-dooi-sǎan) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Turkish: ücret — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Urdu: کِرایَہ (kirāya) — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Vietnamese: tiền xe — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Vietnamese: tiền đò — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Vietnamese: tiền phà — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Waray-Waray: pasahi — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Zazaki: heq — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Zazaki: tarife — money paid for a transport ticket
  • Arabic: مُسَافِر (musāfir) — paying passenger
  • Arabic: سَافِر (sāfir) — paying passenger
  • Bulgarian: пъ́тник (pǎ́tnik) — paying passenger
  • Bulgarian: пасаже́р (pasažér) — paying passenger
  • Chinese Mandarin: 乘客 (chéngkè) — paying passenger
  • Czech: cestující — paying passenger
  • Danish: kunde — paying passenger
  • Dutch: betalende passagier — paying passenger
  • Dutch: reiziger — paying passenger
  • Dutch: opvarende — paying passenger
  • Estonian: sõitja — paying passenger
  • Finnish: matkustaja — paying passenger
  • Finnish: asiakas — paying passenger
  • Finnish: poka — paying passenger
  • French: passager — paying passenger
  • German: Fahrgast — paying passenger
  • German: Passagier — paying passenger
  • Greek: επιβάτης (epivátis) — paying passenger
  • Hungarian: utas — paying passenger
  • Italian: passeggero — paying passenger
  • Japanese: 乗客 (jōkyaku) — paying passenger
  • Korean: 여객 (yeogaek) — paying passenger
  • Korean: 려객 (ryeogaek) — paying passenger
  • Korean: 승객 (seunggaek) — paying passenger
  • Macedonian: патник (patnik) — paying passenger
  • Polish: pasażer — paying passenger
  • Portuguese: passageiro — paying passenger
  • Russian: пассажи́р (passažír) — paying passenger
  • Russian: пассажи́рка (passažírka) — paying passenger
  • Serbo-Croatian: пу̑тнӣк — paying passenger
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȗtnīk — paying passenger
  • Slovak: cestujúci — paying passenger
  • Spanish: pasajero — paying passenger
  • Spanish: carrera — paying passenger
  • Swahili: abiria — paying passenger
  • Swedish: passagerare — paying passenger
  • Swedish: resande — paying passenger
  • Tagalog: pasahe — paying passenger
  • Turkish: yolcu — paying passenger
  • Zazaki: raywan (diq) — paying passenger
  • Arabic: طَعَام (ṭaʕām) — food and drink
  • Bulgarian: прови́зии (provízii) — food and drink
  • Dutch: dieet — food and drink
  • Dutch: levensmiddelen — food and drink
  • Finnish: ruoka ja juoma — food and drink
  • German: Verköstigung — food and drink
  • German: Mahlzeit — food and drink
  • German: Essen und Trinken — food and drink
  • Italian: vitto — food and drink
  • Italian: cibo — food and drink
  • Russian: прови́зия (provízija) — food and drink
  • Russian: проду́кты (prodúkty) — food and drink
  • Dutch: voorraad — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • Dutch: voorraadje — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • Dutch: proviand — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • Finnish: tarvikkeet — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • German: Essensvorrat — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • German: Verpflegung — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • German: Proviant — supplies for consumption or pleasure
  • Bulgarian: ставам (stavam) — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Bulgarian: случвам се (slučvam se) — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Czech: vyjít — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Czech: vycházet — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Dutch: het doen — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Esperanto: farti — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Finnish: pärjätä — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • German: klarkommen — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Hungarian: boldogul — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Middle English: faren — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Polish: mieć się — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Polish: miewać się — to experience fortune or treatment of a certain kind
  • Czech: dopadnout — to happen in a certain way
  • Finnish: käydä — to happen in a certain way
  • French: se passer — to happen in a certain way
  • German: gehen — to happen in a certain way
  • German: ergehen — to happen in a certain way
  • German: laufen — to happen in a certain way
  • Middle English: faren — to happen in a certain way
  • Spanish: irle — to happen in a certain way
  • Spanish: salir — to happen in a certain way