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means The price you pay to travel by bus, train, taxi, or other transport — or, more broadly, food and drink set before you, as in 'simple fare.'

from From Old English 'faran,' meaning 'to journey, travel, get along,' a cousin of German 'fahren' (to drive or ride) and rooted in the Proto-Indo-European base for going or passing through. Originally it was about the journeying itself — to 'fare well' was literally to travel well — and the meaning of 'cost of the journey' grew from there. The 'food' sense branches from the same idea of how things are provided or how one 'gets along,' so the dinner on your table and the price on your ticket are, surprisingly, the same ancient word for setting out.