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FARE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agenda of things to do

Example:

they worked rapidly down the menu of reports

Synonyms:

fare; menu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fare" is a kind of...):

agenda; docket; schedule (a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The food and drink that are regularly served or consumed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fare" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fare"):

diet (the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal))

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

dietary (a regulated daily food allowance)

menu (the dishes making up a meal)

chow; chuck; eats; grub (informal terms for a meal)

board; table (food or meals in general)

ration (the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel))

Derivation:

fare (eat well)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A paying (taxi) passenger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fare" is a kind of...):

passenger; rider (a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

Synonyms:

fare; transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("fare" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fare"):

airfare (the fare charged for traveling by airplane)

bus fare; carfare (the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar)

cab fare; taxi fare (the fare charged for riding in a taxicab)

train fare (the fare charged for traveling by train)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat well

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "fare" is one way to...):

eat (take in solid food)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

fare (the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proceed or get along

Example:

He's come a long way

Synonyms:

come; do; fare; get along; make out

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "fare" is one way to...):

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective

Credits

 Context examples: 

The fare was, indeed, coarse, such as the peasants of the country ate, but I will not doubt that it was set there by the spirits that I had invoked to aid me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Have your fare ready, and the instant that your cab stops, dash through the Arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at a quarter-past nine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was willing to hope that you must fare better.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I fare to feel sure on't.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I ate what I could, and wondered within myself whether every day's fare would be like this.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amy fared worst of all, for her resources were small, and when her sisters left her to amuse herself, she soon found that accomplished and important little self a great burden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was farm-bred and fat and tender; and White Fang licked his chops and decided that such fare was good.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

With a handful of salt and a rifle he could plunge into the wilderness and fare wherever he pleased and as long as he pleased.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All his important manuscripts had come back and been started out again, and his hack-work fared no better.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We none of us want to hear the bill of fare.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)