Fare Meaning
/ˈfɛə/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
nounMoney paid for a transport ticket.
Sentence Examples
Do you have a student fare?
What's the round-trip fare?
How much is the fare to the Hilton Hotel?
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Passengers must pay the bus ____ before boarding or face a fine.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You need to pay the bus ____ as soon as you board the vehicle and find a seat.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“[…] 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.”"
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey."
— 1958 July 26, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:
"So fares the stag among the enraged hounds."
— 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill:
"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."
— 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:
"Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found."
— 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Passengers must pay the bus ____ before boarding or face a fine.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You need to pay the bus ____ as soon as you board the vehicle and find a seat.