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/rɪzˈɔrt/ /rizˈɔrt/ /risˈɔrt/ Listen

noun

Resort n. 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."

Resort n.

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."

A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. "Far from all resort of mirth."

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.

verb

Resort v. i. (past & past part. resorted; pres. part. resorting)

To go; to repair; to betake one's self. "What men name resort to him?"

To fall back; to revert. (Obs.) "The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors."

To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. "The king thought it time to resort to other counsels."

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"Resort" Quotes from Famous Books

... gopher myself, for they look like prairie-dog, and I never did like prairie-dog to eat. Besides, they tell bad stories about these mountain gophers; I've heard that the spotted fever of the mountains, a very deadly disease, is only found in a gopher country; so I'm very glad you did not have to resort ...

— The Young Alaskans in the Rockies • Emerson Hough

... constitution and laws of France have been formed than those which directed the Americans." The lack of this equilibrium among the pure, and, as we may venture to term them, the untrained races, we have occasional opportunities of noting on our own soil when for a passing cause they resort to ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various

... kingdom from age to age. The reader may take, as a single example among many others, the prediction of Isaiah and Micah concerning the establishment of the Lord's house in the last days in the top of the mountains, the resort of all nations to it, and the universal peace that shall follow. Isa. 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-4. That particularism which seeks for the fulfilment of every prophecy in some one specific event of history must go widely astray in its ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... are no workhouses, no refuges and charities, nothing but that Department. Its offices are everywhere. That blue is its colour. And any man, woman or child who comes to be hungry and weary and with neither home nor friend nor resort, must go to the Department in the end—or seek some way of death. The Euthanasy is beyond their means—for the poor there is no easy death. And at any hour in the day or night there is food, shelter and a blue uniform for all comers—that is the first ...

— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... 6th July, urging him to join in a general demand for the liberation of the King and Queen of France. He also invited the monarchs of Europe to launch a Declaration, that they regarded the cause of Louis as their own, and in the last resort to put down a usurpation of power which it behoved ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

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