resort

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹɨˈzɔ(ɹ)t/

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Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

   to have resort to violence

   • Shakespeare

     Join with me to forbid him her resort.

3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
   • Milton

     far from all resort of mirth

Translations

a relaxing environment for people on vacation

• Armenian: կուրորտ (hy) (kurort), (health) առողջարան (hy) (aṙołǰaran)
• Bulgarian: курорт (bg) m (kurórt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 度假勝地, 度假胜地 (dùjià shèngdì), 度假村 (dùjiàcūn)

• Dutch: vakantieoord (nl)
• Estonian: kuurort
• Finnish: lomakohde (fi)
• French: lieu de vacances m, resort (fr) m
• Georgian: კურორტი (ḳurorṭi)
• German: Kurort (de) m, Resort (de) m, Ferienort (de) m
• Greek: θέρετρο (el) n (théretro), εντευκτήριο (el) n (entefktírio)

• Japanese: リゾート (rizōto)
• Maori: wāhi whakatā, tūnga whakatā, taunga whakatā, hōtēra whakatā
• Persian: ویلا‏‎ (fa)
• Polish: kurort (pl) m, uzdrowisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: resort (pt) m
• Russian: куро́рт (ru) m (kurórt), здра́вница (ru) f (zdrávnica)
• Spanish: estación turística f, resort (es) m
• Swedish: semesterort c, kurort c, badort c
• Turkish: tatil köyü (tr)
• Vietnamese: khu nghỉ dưỡng

something or someone turned to for safety

• Dutch: uitweg (nl), toevlucht (nl)
• Finnish: turva (fi)
• French: sortie (fr), recours (fr)
• German: Ausweg (de) m, Zuflucht (de) f

• Greek: καταφύγιο (el) n (katafýgio)
• Portuguese: refúgio (pt) m
• Spanish: recurso (es) m, refugio (es) m
• Swedish: tillflykt (sv) c, tillhåll (sv) n

Verb

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

1. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
   • Clarendon

     The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     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 […]

   • 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist^[1], 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. To fall back; to revert.
   • Sir M. Hale

     The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.

3. 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.

Derived terms

• last resort

Translations

to have recourse out of necessity or frustration

• Finnish: turvautua (fi)
• French: recourir (fr) (à)
• German: zurückgreifen (de), verlegen (de) (reflexive), verfallen (de)
• Greek: καταφεύγω (el) (katafévgo), προσφεύγω (el) (prosfévgo)
• Latin: confugio (la) (ad)

• Norwegian: ty til
• Persian: اندخسیدن‏‎ (fa) (andaxsidan)
• Polish: uciec się, uciekać się (pl)
• Portuguese: recorrer (pt)
• Spanish: recurrir (es)

to fall back

• Finnish: palautua

• German: zurückfallen, heimfallen, zurückkehren (de)

to make one's way

• Finnish: päästä (fi)

• German: kommen (de)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ sort

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːˈsɔ(ɹ)t/

Verb

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

1. to repeat a sorting process; sort again

Translations

to repeat a sorting process

• Finnish: uudelleenjärjestää, järjestää uudelleen
• French: retrier (fr)
• Greek: επαναταξινομώ (el) (epanataxinomó)
• Polish: posortować ponownie (pl)

• Portuguese: reordenar
• Spanish: reordenar, realinear, reacomodar
• Swedish: omsortera

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

French ressort.

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
   • Francis Bacon

     Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

Further reading

• resort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• resort in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• resort at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, retros, roster, sorter, storer

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Portuguese

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

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

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Spanish

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (place for vacation)