fare
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Is fare a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.Synonyms: fare, journey, sith, tripcountableobsoleteuncountable
2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.Examples: "train fare"; "bus fare"; "taxi fare"countable
3. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.countable
4. (uncountable) Food and drink.Examples: "“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”"uncountable
5. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.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."uncountable
6. (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.Synonyms: all-nighter, curb crawler, fare, gonk, jane, Jane, jockey, johnUKcountableslang
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.Examples: "Behold! A knight fares forth."; "[…]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere."; "I know that this was Life,—the track Whereon with equal feet we fared; And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back."archaicintransitive
2. (intransitive) 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.Examples: "How did you fare in the exam?"; "So fares the stag among the enraged hounds."; "There are many discomforting gaps in statistics about the book trades generally, but the reprint sector fares worst—it has no statistical summary or trend reports based on factual evidence."intransitive
3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.Examples: "There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day."archaicintransitive
4. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.Examples: "We shall see how it will fare with him."; "So fares it when with truth falsehood contends."; "Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land."impersonalintransitive
5. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advanceExamples: "We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models."; "He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary