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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESORT', v.i. s as z.
1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake.
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
2. To go; to repair.
The people resort to him again. Mark 10. John 18.
3. To fall back.
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. Obs.
RESORT', n.
1. The act of going to or making application; a betaking one's self; as a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion.
2. Act of visiting.
Join with me to forbid him her resort.
3. Assembly; meeting.
4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as a place of resort.
5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.
6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. [Not in use.]
Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, return, source of aid, from Anglo-French, from resortir to rebound, resort, from re- + Old French sortir to go out, leave Date: 14th century 1. a. one that affords aid or refuge ; resource <went to them as a last resort> b. recourse 1a <have resort to outside help> 2. a. frequent, habitual, or general visiting <a place of popular resort> b. persons who frequent a place ; throng c. (1) a frequently visited place ; haunt (2) a place providing recreation and entertainment especially to vacationers Synonyms: see resource II. intransitive verb Date: 15th century 1. to go especially frequently or habitually ; repair 2. to have recourse <resort to force>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a place frequented esp. for holidays or for a specified purpose or quality (seaside resort; health resort). 2 a a thing to which one has recourse; an expedient or measure (a taxi was our best resort). b (foll. by to) recourse to; use of (without resort to violence). 3 a tendency to frequent or be frequented (places of great resort). --v.intr. 1 (foll. by to) turn to as an expedient (resorted to threats). 2 (foll. by to) go often or in large numbers to. Phrases and idioms: in the (or as a) last resort when all else has failed. Derivatives: resorter n. Etymology: ME f. OF resortir (as RE-, sortir come or go out)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Resort Re*sort" (r?*z?rt"), n. [Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See Resort, v.] 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. Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Resort Re*sort" (r?*z?rt"), n. [F. ressort.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Resort Re*sort", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resorting.] [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.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(resorts, resorting, resorted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want. His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs... VERB: V to n/-ing 2. If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something. Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war. = recourse N-UNCOUNT: N to n 3. If you do something as a last resort, you do it because you can find no other way of getting out of a difficult situation or of solving a problem. Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort... PHRASE: PHR with cl 4. You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens. They would in the last resort support their friends whatever they did. = ultimately PHRASE: PHR with cl 5. A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays. ...the ski resorts. N-COUNT: usu supp N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Go, repair. 2. Have recourse, betake one's self, apply. II. n. 1. Recourse, application. 2. Haunt, retreat, place frequented. 3. Concourse, meeting, confluence, assembling. 4. Company, intercourse.

Moby Thesaurus

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