fare

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fare/feə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 the money payable for a journey on public transport.

  ■ a passenger in a taxi.

• 2 a range of food: traditional Scottish fare.

▶verb

• 1 perform in a specified way: the party fared badly in the elections.

  ■ archaic happen; turn out.

• 2 archaic travel.

– origin OE fær, faru ‘travelling, a journey’, faran ‘to travel’, also ‘get on (well or badly)’, of Gmc origin; rel. to ford.