fare

Meaning

Verb

1. To go, travel.
2. To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
3. To eat, dine.
4. To happen well, or ill.
5. To move along; proceed; progress; advance

Noun

1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
2. Money paid for a transport ticket.
3. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
4. Food and drink.
5. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
6. (slang) A prostitute's client.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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”).