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say it: fer
fair is an adjective, noun, adverb and verb meaning "free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules". It is pronounced /ˈfɛɹ/ — fer. It carries 17 recorded senses.
free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
“a fair referee”
“fair deal”
“on a fair footing”
“a fair fight”
“by fair means or foul”
not excessive or extreme
“a fairish income”
“reasonable prices”
a competitive exhibition of farm products
“she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair”
a sale of miscellany; often for charity
“the church bazaar”
without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
“deal fairly with one another”
join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fair come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.