Resort Meaning
/ɹɪˈzɔːt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
nounRecourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
Sentence Examples
If you don't listen to us, we will have to resort to coercion.
You should not resort to drinking.
The resort caters almost exclusively for a high-society public.
CEFR Practice Quiz
When the peaceful talks failed, the country had to ____ to military action.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The government had to ____ to emergency measures after the situation deteriorated faster than expected.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?"
— 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
"Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,"
— c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 81, column 2:
"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:
"The king thought it time to resort to other counsels."
— 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
"He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]"
— 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
When the peaceful talks failed, the country had to ____ to military action.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The government had to ____ to emergency measures after the situation deteriorated faster than expected.