resort

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See also: Resort and re-sort

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

Pronunciation

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

  1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
    • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
      Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
  2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
    to have resort to violence
  3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
  4. (government) A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
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Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

  1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
    • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
      The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC:
      He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
    • 1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 767:
      Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.
    • 1959 November, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification retrospect”, in Trains Illustrated, page 544:
      The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.
    • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
    • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Course of Descents in England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: , : J Nutt, assignee of Edw Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, , →OCLC, page 211:
      But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
      I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
  3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
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Etymology 2

re- +‎ sort

Pronunciation

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.
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Noun

resort (plural resorts)

  1. An act of sorting again.
    • 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:
      "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

Etymology 3

From French ressort.

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

  1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

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Anagrams

Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ressort.

Pronunciation

Noun

resort m inan

  1. province, department, section

Declension

Declension of resort (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative resort resorty
genitive resortu resortů
dative resortu resortům
accusative resort resorty
vocative resorte resorty
locative resortě, resortu resortech
instrumental resortem resorty

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English resort.

Pronunciation

Noun

resort n (plural resorts)

  1. A resort (place with recreational environment for holidays).

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Borrowed from French ressort.

Pronunciation

Noun

resort m inan

  1. government department
    Synonym: ministerstwo
  2. (colloquial) jurisdiction (power or right to exercise authority)
    Synonym: kompetencje

Declension

Declension of resort
singular plural
nominative resort resorty
genitive resortu resortów
dative resortowi resortom
accusative resort resorty
instrumental resortem resortami
locative resorcie resortach
vocative resorcie resorty

Derived terms

adjective

Further reading

  • resort in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • resort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English resort.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

  1. resort (a relaxing environment for people on vacation)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English resort.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reˈsoɾt/
  • Rhymes: -oɾt
  • Syllabification: re‧sort

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

  1. resort (place for vacation)

Further reading

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