Resort Definition
To make one's way, go (to).
To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
- resource
- refuge
- recourse
- stamping ground
- repair
- hangout
- haunt
- holiday resort
- resort hotel
- retreat
- vacation spot
- hotel
- rendezvous
- option
- opportunity
- as the last available means
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Resort
- as a last resort
Origin of Resort
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal"), back-formation from sortir (“to go out").
From Wiktionary
Middle English resorten to return from Old French resortir to go out again re- re- sortir to go out
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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French ressort.
From Wiktionary
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re- +"Ž sort
From Wiktionary
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