Fare

Definition: Fare

Fare

Noun

1. An agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports".

2. The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance.

3. A paying (taxi) passenger.

4. The food and drink that are regularly consumed.

Verb

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".

2. Eat well.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

19th Century Satire

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fare

Action

Phrase: "action is eloquence"; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n"; dii pia facta vident; faire sans dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts"; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action "; "thought is the soul of act"; vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir; "we live in deeds not years".

Departure

Interjection: begone!; (ejection); farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day! au revoir! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf wiedersehen! au plaisir de vous revoir! bon voyage! gluckliche Reise! vive valeque!

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree.

Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.

List

Account; bill, bill of costs; terrier; tally, listing, itemization; atlas; book, ledger; catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics, returns.

Plan

Forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare; (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate, ticket.

Price

Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a.

State

Verb: be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state; Noun: be on a footing, do, fare; come to pass.

Unskillfulness

Cut blocks with a razor; (useless); fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow; catch at straws, lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue a wild goose chase; go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand; go further and fare worse; lose one's way, miss one's way; fail.

Crosswords: Fare

Albanian (at all, dead, entirely, none, not at all, not in the least, nothing, plenty, quite, scarcely, spermatic, very, whatever, wholly), Danish (danger, go, peril, ride, travel), Hawaiian (at all, entirely, quite, wholly), Italian (achieve, act, be, build, carry out, construct, do, execute, fashion, get, go in for, have, kind, make, manner, perform, produce, put in, shall, should, sort, species, to do, to make, type), Manx (best), Norwegian (danger, hazard, jeopardy, peril), Tahitian (house), Turkish (house mouse, mouse, rat).

I didn't have enough money for cab fare! The tux didn't come back from the cleaners (The Blues Brothers ; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis)

How did you fare with that little number the other night (Roadracers; writing credit: Robert Rodriguez; Tommy Nix)

The fare is 18 credits please (Total Recall; writing credit: Ronald Shusett)

Fool! Your fare is the only thing stopping me from breaking your face (D.C. Cab; writing credit: Topper Carew; Joel Schumacher)

For a two fifty fare, she said (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

I needed one more fare to make my night (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

Cab fare to nowhere is what you are (Don't Shed A Tear; performing artist: Paul Carrack)

Venga a fare il soldato da noi (1971)

Si può fare molto con sette donne (1971)

Friday Fare (1965)

Kornet er i fare (1945)

Fare Play (1932)

Hitchin' A Ride (performing artist: Vanity Fare)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cooking in the New South: A Modern Approach to Traditional Southern Fare (reference)

• Dips: Great Recipes for Spreads, Salsas, Fondues and Other Party Fare (reference)

• Month of Meals: All-American Fare (reference)

• The Everything Christmas Recipes: Festive Holiday Fare and Treats (Everything (Mini)) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fare Elettronica (reference)

• Fare Musica (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Slim Cooking-Light Lunch Fare (reference)

• Tales from the Cryptkeeper: Fare Tonight (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tokyo subway fare machine. Credit: CDC.

Billiards and light reading fare were among the recreational items at the Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

General view of schooner discharging fare of fresh halibut at Gloucester, Mass Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Discharging fare of George's Bank cod at Gloucester wharf Drawing by H. W. Elliott, 1882. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Modo di fare il pane. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colored family from near Houston, Texas. Been in California for two years. Husband came first, later sent for wife and two children, who traveled by bus (on licensed car, fare six dollars, traveling night and day). Husband now on Works Progress Administra. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning chopping cotton. Beans are the staple fare of these workers. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bill of fare at tourist camp. Roosevelt, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

The bell-y punch: the conductor when he collects a fare, must punch in the presence of the passinjare / Thos. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A single plate, meat and vegetables together, or salt fish, constituted the fare.

Every day he drew up a bill of fare for the family and every night led a party of three or four to the theatre to see Ingomar or The Lady of Lyons

Fare you well

Moreover, when at the pond, I wished sometimes to add fish to my fare for variety

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Generally, people who are younger or have less extensive brain damage fare better. (references)

Business

These two particular sports fare well with lower income level citizens, as well as with school districts. (references)

An often asked question was how Switzerland's power generating industry would fare in a liberalized market. (references)

The increasing number of flights from Italy to U.S. and resulting fare reductions have also stimulated this trend. (references)

Children

Fiji

School is mandatory until age 15. Families' inability to pay school fees and bus fare following the downturn in the economy has resulted in a decrease in attendance. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nicaragua

In June clashes between police and rioters protesting bus fare hikes led the wounding of several demonstrators and the arrest of 16 persons. (references)

Panama

On May 9 to 11, in Panama City, student and worker protests over bus fare increases turned violent, with Molotov cocktails, rock throwing, and looting. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Historically, private investment has not been targeted, with the notable exception of the above-mentioned bus fare riots. (references)

Vietnam

In practice, little is known about how a request for enforcement of foreign arbitration awards would fare in Vietnamese courts. (references)

Peru

The airline industry has been liberalized in recent years, and fare competition on domestic and international routes has picked up. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

In May 1999, police arrested Peruvian businessman Carlos Freddy Cano Lopez after he refused to pay a disputed taxi fare. (references)

Minorities

Togo

On July 29, a Togolese mob reportedly ransacked a Nigerian church after an ethnic Ibo allegedly stabbed a taxi driver over a disputed fare. (references)

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

Many U.S. companies operating in South Africa already have significant programs that support and empower HDIs and could therefore fare well in this system. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Be sure to negotiate the fare before you embark. (references)

Taiwan

A 50 percent surcharge is added to the meter fare. (references)

Egypt

Negotiating the fare is best done before the trip. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Bus drivers also were required to employ boys under the age of 15 to collect fares from female passengers; neither the drivers nor the fare collectors were to mingle with the passengers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "fare": adult fare ♦ advance purchase excursion fare ♦ affinity group fare ♦ air fare ♦ automated fare collection ♦ average fare ♦ bill of fare ♦ bus fare ♦ cab fare ♦ carriage fare ♦ cheap day return fare ♦ cheap fare ♦ child fare ♦ combination fare ♦ common interest group fare ♦ constructed fare ♦ coordinated discount fare ♦ coordinated fare ♦ creative fare ♦ dodge paying the fare ♦ economy fare ♦ electronic fare collection ♦ electronic fare payment ♦ emigrant fare ♦ exact fare ♦ excess fare ♦ excursion fare ♦ fare cooperative ♦ fare dodger ♦ fare fac ♦ fare ill ♦ fare increase ♦ Fare indicator ♦ fare meter ♦ Fare register ♦ fare stage ♦ Fare wicket ♦ fare zone ♦ go farther and fare worse ♦ group inclusive tour fare ♦ half fare ♦ honour fare system ♦ incentive fare ♦ incentive group fare ♦ joint fare ♦ lenten fare ♦ normal fare ♦ pilgrim fare ♦ promotional fare ♦ published fare ♦ reduced fare ♦ return fare ♦ round trip fare ♦ sectional fare ♦ sector fare ♦ sectorial fare ♦ shoulder season fare ♦ special fare ♦ specified fare ♦ subway fare ♦ taxi fare ♦ through fare ♦ tourist fare ♦ train fare ♦ youth fare ♦ zone fare system. Additional references.

Beginning with "fare": fare-cutting, fare-dodgers, fare-fixing, fare-paid, fare-payer, fare-payers, fare-paying, fare-runner, fare-slashing, fare-stage, fare-structures, fare-table, fare-thee-well, fare-wars.

Ending with "fare": full-fare, Travellers-fare.

Albanian

ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), udhëtoj (go, journey, peregrinate, tour, travel, walk), udhëtar (cruiser, passenger, peregrinator, pilgrim, roadster, traveler, traveller, viator, voyager, wayfarer), tarifë (carfare, carte, catalogue, dues, fee, price current, price list, rate, scale of charges, tariff, toll), pagesë (carfare, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, quittance, remuneration, salary, wage), ia kaloj (anticipate, distance, do, hand down, outclass, outdo, outrange, outrank, outrun, outstrip, overbalance, overmatch, overshoot, refer, surpass, turn over), e ngrënë (chamfer, feed, ragged), çalltis (endeavor, endeavour, finagle, rub along, shift), çallëstis (endeavor, endeavour, finagle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجح أو خفق, ‏سافر (barefaced, cover, cruise, fly, go, hike, journey, leave, pack, ride, set off, tour, travel, voyage), ‏طعام (aliment, chuck, common, eatables, eating, feed, food, kosher, meat, nourishment, provender, ration), ‏إرتحل (dislodge, migrate, pack), ‏أصاب نجاحا, ‏ثمن التذكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

странствувам (itinerate, peregrinate, rove), храня се (board, eat, subsist, victual), храна (aliment, board, boarding, chow, chuck, diet, dietary, eating, edibles, feed, fodder, food, fuel, meal, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, rations, scran, sustenance, tack, viands, victuals), цена на билет, такса (charge, dues, fee, rate), пътник (occupant, passenger, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, traveler, traveller, wayfarer), пътни разноски, изкарвам (be through, dislodge, fetch, finish, get, get through, make, oust, pass through, run off, serve). (various references)

Chinese 

车费, 運費 . (various references)

Czech

zákazník (client, customer, purchaser, shopper, taker), vést se, strava (board, diet, food, keep, nutriment), pasažér (passenger), jízdné (carfare, traveling expenses), dařit se (come along, get along, get on, prosper, stand fair, thrive), cestující (itinerant, passenger, traveler, traveller, treveller). (various references)

Danish

takst (charge, passage money), pris (price). (various references)

Dutch

het maken. (various references)

Esperanto

farti. (various references)

Faeroese

vita við, kenna seg, hava tað, dáma (appreciate, like, please). (various references)

Farsi 

مسافرکرایه ای , کرایه مسافر, کرایه (Freight, Hire, Lease, Portage, Rent), گذراندن (Outwear, Survive, While), گذران کردن (Subsist), خوراک (Cuisine, Dish, Feed, Grub, Meat, Nourishment, Nutrition, Repast, Tack, Tucker, Viand). (various references)

Finnish

voida (be, be able, be able to, be capable be in a position, feel), matkarahat (passage-money, travelling allowance), matkalipun hinta (passage money), maksu (charge, fee, pay, payment, settlement), kyytimaksu, ajomaksu. (various references)

French

aller. (various references)

German

fahrpreis (passage money), kost (board, food, victuals food), fahrgeld (carfare), speise (dessert, dish, food, mortar, whip). (various references)

Greek 

κομίστρο, ναύλα, ναύλοσ (freight, freightage), ναύλο (nylon), νούλα, περνώ (come across, cross, get by, go by, go on, go through, pass, pass through, spend time, step over, surpass, while), φαγητό (chow, course, food, meal, mess, repast), εισιτήριο (ticket), τροφή (aliment, diet, feed, food, grub, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance, viand), τα παω, διάγω. (various references)

Hebrew 

מזון (food, meal, meat, nourishment, pabulum, sustenance), תפריט (diet, list, menu), שכר (earnings, fee, pay, payment, profit, remuneration, reward, salary, wage), פרנסה (bread, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, provision, subsistence, support, upkeep), דמי נסיעה (carfare). (various references)

Hungarian

viteldíj (carfare, transportation), utas (passenger, rider, traveler, traveller, wayfarer), koszt (board, commons), útiköltség, étel (damper, dub, eat, eatables, eating, food, jock, meal, meat, mess, nourishment, nutriment, scarf, scran). (various references)

Italian

tariffa (price, rate, tariff). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

車馬賃 (carfare, transportation expenses), 運賃　 (freight rates, shipping expenses), 運賃 (freight rates, shipping expenses), 船賃 (passage, shipping charges), フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fake, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor), 料金　 (charge, fee), 料金 (charge, fee). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フェア (fair, fear), しゃばちん (carfare, transportation expenses), うんちん (freight rates, shipping expenses), ふなちん (passage, shipping charges), りょうきん (charge, fee). (various references)

Korean 

운임 (freight). (various references)

Manx

tailley (duty, fee, impost, notch, score, tally, tally-stick), leagh troalt, farral, farrail (entertainment), faill (board, fee, hire, pay, salary, stipend, wages), faarjey (to get by). (various references)

Norwegian

takst, billettpris. (various references)

Pig Latin

arefay.(various references)

Polish

czuć się. (various references)

Portuguese

frete (freight, freightage, portage, porterage, truckage), taxa (average, due, duty, fee, gear-ratio, imposition, impost, percentage, proportionable, rate, ratio, tax), tíquete (card, gatemoney), passar (blow over, come, draw, drew, dub, elapse, give in, go, go beyond, go by, hand, pass, pass by, rake, rake up, slip away, spend, strop, to pass, to spend, transfer, wear off, wile), passagem (access, alleyway, carfare, col, communication, corridor, ferry, gangway, gate, gatemoney, gateway, highroad crossing, inlet, pass, passage, passageway, passing, place, switch-over, ticket, transit, transition, way), passageiro (ephemeral, faddy, fleet, momentary, passenger, passing, perfunctory, rider, temporary, transient, transitional, transitory, wayfarer), comida (board, cheer, dietary, eating, food, meal, peck, prog, scoff, tuck, tucker), comer (capture, consume, eat, itch, nosh, relish, stoke, take, to eat), bilhete (bill, coupon, note, ticket), arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, figure out, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim), alimentar (aliment, diet, feed, food, forage, foster, nourish, nurture, nutritive), alimentação (board, chargin, eating, food, maintenance, nourishment, subsistence), acontecer (become, become of, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, cut in, ensue, eventuate, get, grow, happen, intervene, occur, take place, transpire). (various references)

Romanian

pasager (goer, passenger, rider, traveller), mâncãruri, hranã (board, bread, diet, eatable, eats, esculent, feed, food, keep, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, support, sustenance), duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, convey, deliver, die, drive, duke, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wage, wear), costul unui bilet de cãlãtorie, cãlãtori (die, drive, end, itinerate, journey, ride, roam, travel, voyage, wander), cãlãtor (excursionist, fleeting, goer, itinerant, passenger, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, roaming, short lived, tourist, transitory, traveller, travelling, vagrant, visitor, voyager, wayfarer, wayfaring man), a-i merge. (various references)

Russian 

плата за проезд (fares). (various references)

Scottish

farradh (freight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vozarina (cartage, freight, portage), putnik (itinerant, passenger, passer, tourer, traveler, traveller, vacationer, vacationist, voyager, wayfarer), hrana (aliment, chow, cuisine, eatables, food, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, pabulum, prog, provender, tommy, trencher, viands, victual, victuals). (various references)

Spanish

pasaje (airbill, alleyway, arcade, carfare, channel, crossing, pass, passage, passage money, passageway, piece, ticket, view, voyage). (various references)

Swedish

taxa (charge, fee, rate, table of rates, tariff, tax), kost (board, diet, food), biljettpris. (various references)

Thai

เดินทาง (do, journey), อาหาร (board, diet, eatable, eating, edible, feed, feeder, food, grub, meal, meals, munch, nosh, nosh-up), กระทำ, รับประทาน (dine, have), ค่าโดยสาร. (various references)

Turkish

yolcu (passenger, pilgrim, traveler, traveller, voyager), yola çıkmak (be off, depart, get under weigh, leave, set forth, set off, set out, start, start off, take off, take the road), yol parası (toll), yiyecek (aliment, chow, comestibles, eatables, food, forage, grub, keep, nurture, prog, provender, scran, tack, tuck, victual), olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, mature, occur, take place, turn), gitmek (apply, betake oneself to, bugger off, depart, give, go, go away, go together, head, head for, hop it, hop off, repair, resort, roll, run, steer for, step, strike out, take one's way, take to, to go, turn to, wend one's way, work in with), gıda (aliment, diet, food, nourishment, nutrient, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, sustenance), bilet ücreti (carfare), başından geçmek (experience, happen, know, live through, pass through). (various references)

Ukrainian

їздець, їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, nutritive, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), жити (bide, exist, get along, live, sleep together, tick), плата за проїзд. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiền xe, tiền phà, tiền đò, chế độ ăn, đồ ăn (food). (various references)

Welsh

bydio (live). (various references)

cibi, cibis, cibo, ciborum, ciborumque, cibos, cibum, cibus, naulum. (various references)

feran. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "fare": fared, farer, farers, fares, farewell, farewelled, farewelling, farewells. (additional references)

Words ending with "fare": airfare, antiwelfare, carfare, fanfare, fieldfare, infare, thoroughfare, warfare, welfare, workfare. (additional references)

Words containing "fare": airfares, carfares, fanfares, fieldfares, infares, seafarer, seafarers, taffarel, taffarels, thoroughfares, warfares, wayfarer, wayfarers, welfares, workfares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afare, Afrem, afri, faar, fabe, fabee, Fabra, fabre, fabrex, fae, Faee, faer, fage, fagr, fahe, Fahr, fairen, fajr, fape, fara, Farai, faran, farao, farb, farbe, farc, fardel, faree, Farel, farem, Faremo, faret, farew, Farey, farg, Farge, fari, farib, faric, farie, Fariq, farir, farit, farje, fark, farle, Farme, Farn, faroe, farper, farr, Farra, Farre, farrel, farret, Farro, farte, fartel, Faruk, Faruqi, farve, Farvel, farx, fary, faura, Faurie, fave, favre, faxe, fayre, feare, Fearne, feire, feore, fera, ferde, Fere, feren, ferf, feri, ferne, feroe, firee, firen, fireo, firex, firve, fnarr, forei, forek, forep, forex, forre, frae, frage, frai, frale, fratri, fraue, frave, frawe, fre, frex, fure, furre, fyre, Ofarim, ofire. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fear, frae.

-1 letter: are, arf, ear, era, far, fer, ref.

-2 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re.

+1 letter: afire, afore, after, facer, fader, faery, faker, farce, fared, farer, fares, farle, fears, feral, feria, feuar, flare, frame, freak, frena, safer, wafer.

+2 letters: aerify, afeard, afreet, afresh, afters, agrafe, barfed, carafe, chafer, dafter, deafer, defray, earful, fabler, facers, faders, faerie, fainer, faired, fairer, fakeer, fakers, fakery, faller, falser, falter, fanner, farced, farcer, farces, farcie, farded, fardel, farers, farfel, farles, farmed, farmer, faster, father, fatter, fawner, feared, fearer, feater, fedora, femora, ferbam, feriae, ferial, ferias, ferula, feuars, fiacre, flaker, flamer, flared, flares, flayer, florae, foamer, forage, fraena, fraise, framed, framer, frames, frappe, frater, frayed, freaks, freaky, furane, gaffer, hafter, infare, loafer, prefab, raffle, rafted, rafter, rarefy, reface, refall, strafe, trefah, wafers, wafery, wafter, zaffer, zaffre.