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
- 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.
- And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.