fare
part of speech
noun (a fare, fares); verb (fare, fares, fared, faring)
meaning for a pupil
1) A fare is the money you pay to travel on a bus, train, plane, taxi or boat. tree →
2) To fare means to do or get on in a certain way: «How did you fare in the test?» tree →
3) Fare is food, especially a kind of food: «simple country fare». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life you pay a bus fare or a train fare, and children often pay a cheaper child fare. In maths problems, fares are prices to add, multiply or compare: «A return fare costs …». In stories «fare» can mean how characters got on. Phrases: «bus fare», «train fare», «child fare», «return fare», «single fare», «half fare», «fare well».
examples
- How much is the bus fare to town? tree →
- Children travel at half fare. tree →
- Dad paid the taxi fare. tree →
- A return fare is cheaper than two singles. tree →
- How did you fare in your swimming test? tree →
- The café served simple, tasty fare. tree →
- Train fares go up every year. tree →
- If one fare is $2, four fares cost $8. tree →
- "Here is excellent fare!" said the sparrow. tree →
note
Homophones: «fare» (travel money) and «fair» (just; light-coloured; a funfair). «Farewell» means goodbye. Maths: a «return» fare covers there and back; a «single» (UK) or «one-way» (US) fare covers one way only.
In the corpora
- And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
- He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power £15.
- You have the fare, a travel card or a contactless card ready before getting on, to keep the line moving.
- Have your fare, travel card or contactless card ready before getting on the bus to keep the line moving.
- Have the fare, a travel card or a contactless card ready before getting on the bus; it keeps the line moving.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.