"resort" Definition

Definitions for the word "resort" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
Active power or movement; spring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To fall back; to revert.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 place frequented esp. For holidays or for a specified purpose or quality (seaside resort; health resort). 2 a thing to which one has recourse; expedient, measure. B (foll. By to) recourse to; use of (without resort to violence). v. 1 (foll. By to) turn to as an expedient (resorted to force). 2 (foll. By to) go often or in large numbers to. in the (or as a) last resort when all else has failed. [french sortir go out]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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