fare
Money paid for a transport ticket.
Noun 4 meanings
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
“The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.”
Verb 1 meaning
Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].
“She fared badly in the accident.”
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”).
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FARE at a glance
FARE has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + R 1 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,671 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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