noun
- A traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc..
- Gathering of producers to promote business.
- usage: "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
- A competitive exhibition of farm products.
- usage: "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
- A sale of miscellany; often for charity.
- usage: "the church bazaar"
- synonyms: bazaar
verb
- Join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly.
adjective
- Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules.
- usage: "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
- synonyms: just
- Not excessive or extreme.
- usage: "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
- synonyms: fairish, reasonable
- Very pleasing to the eye.
- usage: "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
- Of a baseball. ( hit between the foul lines)
- usage: "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
- Lacking exceptional quality or ability.
- usage: "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
- Attractively feminine.
- usage: "the fair sex"
- Of a manuscript. ( having few alterations or corrections)
- usage: "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
- synonyms: clean
- Gained or earned without cheating or stealing.
- usage: "an honest wage"; "an fair penny"
- synonyms: honest
- Free of clouds or rain.
- usage: "today will be fair and warm"
- Used of hair or skin. ( pale or light-colored)
- usage: "a fair complexion";
- synonyms: fairish
adverb
- In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating.
- usage: "they played fairly"
- Without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner.
- usage: "deal fairly with one another"
- synonyms: fairly, evenhandedly
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