fare

¹fare

verb \ˈfer\

faredfar·ing

Definition of FARE

intransitive verb

1

: go, travel

2

: get along, succeed <how did you fare on your exam?>

3

: eat, dine

Examples of FARE

1. <residents of the flood-ravaged town are faring much better than one might have expected>
2. <families can be seen faring along the road to the campground while driving or towing all manner of conveyance>
3. The Mystery Maid, a halibut and black cod schooner, had fared badly of late and was in the process of being overhauled. —David Guterson, Snow Falling On Ciders, 1994
4. … genuinely new creations do not usually fare well with mainstream publishers in any age. —Erica Jong, New York Times Book Review, 5 June 1988
5. Back upstairs, I put on a gold lamé dress and fared forth to the first big dinner of 1968 … —Lady Bird Johnson, 25 Jan. 1968, in A White House Diary, 1970

Origin of FARE

Middle English faren, from Old English faran; akin to Old High German faran to go, Latin portare to carry, Greek peran to pass through, poros passage, journey

First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to FARE

Synonyms: cope, do, get along, get by, get on, make out, manage, shift

Antonyms: remain, stand, stay, stop

Related Words: carry on, contrive, scrape (by or through), scrounge; last, survive; eke out, scrape (out), squeeze, wrest, wring; afford, swing

Near Antonyms: collapse, fail, fall short, fizzle, flounder; decline, peter (out), slump, wane; give up

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Rhymes with FARE

air, Ayr, bare, bear, Blair, blare, care, chair, chare, dare, Dare, e'er, ere, err, eyre, fair, flair, flare, glair, glare, hair, hare, Herr, heir, lair, mare, ne'er, pair, pare, pear, prayer, rare, rear, scare, share, snare, spare, square, stair, stare, swear, tare, tear, their, there, vair, ware, wear, weir, where, yare