resort Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a hotel located in a resort area
    resort hotel; holiday resort.
  2. noun a frequently visited place
    stamping ground; hangout; haunt; repair.
  3. noun something or someone turned to for assistance or security
    recourse; refuge.
    • his only recourse was the police
    • took refuge in lying
  4. noun act of turning to for assistance
    recourse; refuge.
    • have recourse to the courts
    • an appeal to his uncle was his last resort
  5. verb have recourse to
    fall back; recur.
    • The government resorted to rationing meat
  6. verb move, travel, or proceed toward some place
    repair.
    • He repaired to his cabin in the woods

WordNet

Re*sort" noun
Etymology
F. ressort.
Definitions
  1. Active power or movement; spring. A Gallicism Obs.
    Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.
Re*sort" intransitive verb
Etymology
OF. resortir to withdraw, take refuge, F. ressortir to be in the jurisdiction, LL. resortire; pref. re- re- + L. sortiri to draw lots, obtain by lot, from sors lot. See Sort. The meaning is first to reobtain (by lot), then to gain by appeal to a higher court (as a law term), to appeal, go for protection or refuge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Resorted; present participle & verbal noun Resorting
Definitions
  1. To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
    What men name resort to him? Shak.
  2. To fall back; to revert. Obs.
    The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. Sir M. Hale.
  3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
    The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon.
Re*sort" noun
Etymology
Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See Resort, v.
Definitions
  1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
    Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak.
  2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
    Far from all resort of mirth. Milton.
  3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.

Webster 1913