resorts

Noun (1)

resort (plural resorts)

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
   • Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent...2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53

   Synonyms:

   playground

2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
   • to have resort to violence
3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
   • Far from all reſort of mirth,a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 40
4. A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.

Noun (2)

resort (plural resorts)

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
   • Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Cunning”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

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