Definition

1. Noun:

   • The cost of a journey on public transport: The money a passenger pays for a ticket to travel by bus, train, plane, etc.
   • A passenger in a taxi: A person who hires and pays for the journey in a taxi or similar hired vehicle.
   • Food and drink provided or consumed: The range or type of food regularly eaten or served, especially of a particular quality.

2. Verb:

   • To perform or progress in a specified way: To experience a particular level of success, fortune, or condition in a situation.
   • (Archaic) To travel or go: To journey from one place to another.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Cost of transport):
  • The bus fare has increased by twenty percent this year.
  • Children under five travel for a reduced fare.
• Noun (Taxi passenger):
  • The driver picked up a fare at the airport.
• Noun (Food):
  • The restaurant offers simple but delicious fare.
  • The airline is known for its excellent in-flight fare.
• Verb (To perform/progress):
  • How did you fare in your exams?
  • The small business fared well during the economic crisis.
• Verb (Archaic: To travel):
  • "Fare thee well!" (A traditional expression meaning "Travel safely!" or "Goodbye!")

Advanced Usage

• "To fare better/worse than": To be more or less successful or fortunate compared to someone or something else.
  • Our team fared better than expected in the competition.
• "Bill of fare": An old-fashioned term for a menu in a restaurant.
  • The waiter handed us the bill of fare.

Variants and Related Words

• Warfare (n): The waging of war or armed conflict. (Note: This is a compound word where "fare" is a historical component meaning "journey" or "passage," but it is not a direct variant of the modern word "fare".)
• Thoroughfare (n): A main road or public highway.

Synonyms

• Noun (Cost): Ticket price, charge, fee.
• Noun (Food): Cuisine, food, diet, provisions.
• Verb (Perform): Manage, get on, cope, do, proceed.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Fare" is not commonly used to form modern phrasal verbs. Its usage is typically standalone.)

Related Idioms

• "Farewell": A contraction of "fare well," meaning goodbye and expressing a wish for the person to have a good journey or good fortune.
  • They said their farewells at the train station.
• "You pays your money and you takes your choice (of fare)": A proverb (often humorously adapted) suggesting that once you have paid for something, you must accept what you get. It sometimes references the unpredictability of value for money, such as with transport or a meal.
  • The reviews for that diner are mixed, but you pays your money and you takes your choice.

Noun

1. the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
2. a paying (taxi) passenger
3. the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
4. an agenda of things to do
   • they worked rapidly down the menu of reports

Verb

1. eat well
2. 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