resort
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English resorten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Pronunciation
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).
- to have resort to violence
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Join with me to forbid him her resort.
- (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- far from all resort of mirth
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Translations
a relaxing environment for people on vacation
|
something or someone turned to for safety
|
Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
- (Can we date this quote by Clarendon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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, 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Clarendon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir M. Hale and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir M. Hale and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (intransitive) 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:
Derived terms
Translations
to have recourse out of necessity or frustration
|
to fall back
|
to make one's way
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.
Translations
to repeat a sorting process
|
Noun
resort (plural resorts)
- 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.
- 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:
Etymology 3
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French ressort.
Noun
resort (plural resorts)
- (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Further reading
- “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.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Noun
resort m (plural s)
- resort (a relaxing environment for people on vacation)
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
resort m (plural resorts)
- resort (place for vacation)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Requests for date/William Shakespeare
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Requests for date/John Milton
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- Requests for date/Clarendon
- English terms with quotations
- Requests for date/Sir M. Hale
- English terms prefixed with re-
- English transitive verbs
- English terms derived from French
- Requests for date/Francis Bacon
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns