fare
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views updated Jun 11 2018 fare / fer/ • n. 1. the
money a passenger on public transportation has to pay. ∎ a passenger paying to travel in a vehicle, esp. a taxicab. 2. a range of food, esp. of a
particular type: delicious Provençal fare. ∎ fig. performance or entertainment of a
particular style: Hollywood fare. • v. [intr.] 1. perform
in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period of
time: the party fared badly in the spring elections. 2. archaic travel: a young knight fares forth.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
fare
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views updated May 17 2018fare2 †go on a journey; get on (well or ill) OE.; †behave, act; happen. XIII. Now only literary. OE. str. vb.
faran = ON.
fara, OS., OHG., Goth.
faran (Du.
varen, G.
fahren) :- Gmc. *
faran, f. *
far- :
-IE. *
por- (cf. Gr.
poreúesthai proceed; also
FORD).
Hence
farewell int. (‘proceed happily’; see
WELL3), orig. imper. phr.; also as sb. XIV.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
Fare
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views updated Jun 27 2018Fare
a company ready to travel, 1562; a troop; a multitude or swarm; a catch of fish; a load of animals, 1600; the cargo of a vessel, 1884.
Examples: fare of fish; of flatterers, 1634; of flies; of fools and cheaters; of pigs [‘a litter’]; of travellers, 1562.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
fare
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views updated May 29 2018fare1 †journey OE.; (supply of) food XIII; passage money XV; passenger XVI. orig. two words, (i) OE.
fær str. n. = OHG.
far transit, landing-place, harbour, ON.
far :- Gmc. *
faram; (ii) OE.
faru str. fem. = MLG.
vare, MHG.
var, ON.
fǫr :- Gmc. *
farō; f. base of next.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
FARE
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views updated May 14 2018FARE Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments
The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH
