'Resort' definitions:
Definition of 'resort'
(from WordNet)
noun
A hotel located in a resort area [syn: resort, resort hotel, holiday resort]
noun
noun
Something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: recourse, refuge, resort]
noun
Act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: recourse, resort, refuge]
verb
verb
Move, travel, or proceed toward some place; "He repaired to his cabin in the woods" [syn: repair, resort]
Definition of 'Resort'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Join with me to forbid him her resort. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. [1913 Webster]
- Far from all resort of mirth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge. [1913 Webster]
- Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Resort'
From: GCIDE
- Resort \Re*sort"\ (r?*z?rt"), n. [F. ressort.] Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Resort'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- What men name resort to him? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fall back; to revert. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. [1913 Webster]
- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'resort'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ability,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- affect,
- agency,
- alternative,
- amusement park,
- answer,
- artifice,
- attend,
- backup,
- ballroom,
- baths,
- cabaret,
- cafe chantant,
- cafe dansant,
- capacity,
- capital,
- casino,
- club,
- clubhouse,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- dance floor,
- dance hall,
- dancing pavilion,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- devices,
- disposable resources,
- dodge,
- effort,
- entertainment industry,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- fall back on,
- frequent,
- fun-fair,
- funds,
- gambling house,
- gathering place,
- gimmick,
- going between,
- hang,
- hang around,
- hangout,
- haunt,
- have recourse to,
- health resort,
- hope,
- improvisation,
- instrumentality,
- intermediation,
- juke joint,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- look to,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanism,
- mediation,
- meeting place,
- method,
- move,
- night spot,
- nightclub,
- nitery,
- patronize,
- pis aller,
- power,
- purlieu,
- rallying point,
- recourse,
- recourses,
- refuge,
- remedy,
- rendezvous,
- repair to,
- reserve,
- resort to,
- resorts,
- resource,
- resources,
- retreat,
- roadhouse,
- service,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- show biz,
- show business,
- solution,
- spa,
- springs,
- stamping,
- stamping ground,
- step,
- stock,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- substitute,
- supply,
- tactic,
- take to,
- tavern,
- temporary expedient,
- theater,
- trick,
- trump,
- turn to,
- visit,
- watering place,
- ways,
- ways and means,
- wherewith,
- wherewithal,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition