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Resort - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Resort : (noun)
1: a hotel located in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, holiday
resort]
2: a frequently visited place [syn: haunt, hangout, repair,
stamping ground]
3: something or someone turned to for assistance or security;
"his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
[syn: recourse, refuge]
4: act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the
courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"
[syn: recourse, refuge]
(verb)
1: have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing
meat" [syn: fall back, recur]
2: move, travel, or proceed toward some place; "He repaired to
his cabin in the woods" [syn: repair]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Join with me to forbid him her resort. --Shak.
2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place
of frequent assembly; a haunt.
Far from all resort of mirth. --Milton.
3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource;
refuge.
Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final
tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Resort : \Re*sort"\ (r?*z?rt"), n. [F. ressort.]
Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.]
Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that
can not sink into the main of it. --Bacon.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
What men name resort to him? --Shak.
2. To fall back; to revert. [Obs.]
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the
mother, or to any of her ancestors. --Sir M. Hale.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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RESORT. The authority or jurisdiction of a court. The supreme court of the
United States is a court of the last resort.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Resort |
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