Resort

Quick meaning: Resort is a noun meaning A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

Meaning

A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

More Meanings

1. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
2. (government) A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
3. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
4. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
5. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
6. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)
7. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

Example Sentences

to have resort to violence

Far from all reſort of mirth,

Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

Word Forms

• resorts
• resorting
• resorted

Synonyms for resort

Depending on context, synonyms include refuge, repair, recur, recourse, playground, fall back.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include refuge, playground, hangout, recourse, repair, recur.

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