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# A place where people go for [[recreation]], especially one with [[facility|facilities]] such as [[lodging|lodgings]], [[entertainment]], and a relaxing environment. |
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#* '''2011''' May, [[w:Alexandra Kotur|Alexandra Kotur]], section editor, "Overheard", [[w:Vogue (magazine)|American ''Vogue'']], page 146: |
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#*: Gregory Parkinson presents '''resort''' for the first time this month. "It's very smart," the designer says of the collection, "maybe a step away from the edgier mood of fall." Look for hits of cobalt blue to take with you on summer holiday. |
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Revision as of 23:01, 16 October 2011
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) resorten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) resortir, back-formation from (deprecated template usage) sortir.
Pronunciation
- Lua error: Please specify a language code in the first parameter; the value "/ɹɨˈzɔ(ɹ)t/" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages).
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Noun
resort (plural resorts)
- A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
- recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety)
Translations
a relaxing environment to people on vacation
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something or someone turned to for safety
Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- To make one's way, go (to).
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:
- To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
Derived terms
Translations
to have recourse out of necessity or frustration
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Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
- Lua error: Please specify a language code in the first parameter; the value "/ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages).
Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- to repeat a sorting process, see sort
Translations
to repeat a sorting process
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Noun
resort (plural resorts)
- an act of resorting
- 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.
- 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:
External links
- “resort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “resort”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “resort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.