RESORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resort mean? 

• RESORT (noun)
  The noun RESORT has 4 senses:

1. a hotel located in a resort area

2. a frequently visited place

3. something or someone turned to for assistance or security

4. act of turning to for assistance

  Familiarity information: RESORT used as a noun is uncommon.

• RESORT (verb)
  The verb RESORT has 2 senses:

1. have recourse to

2. move, travel, or proceed toward some place

  Familiarity information: RESORT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hotel located in a resort area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

holiday resort; resort; resort hotel

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

dude ranch (a holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping))

honeymoon resort (a resort that caters to newlyweds)

ski resort (a resort with lodging and facilities for skiing)

Holonyms ("resort" is a part of...):

playground; resort area; vacation spot (an area where many people go for recreation)

Derivation:

resort (move, travel, or proceed toward some place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A frequently visited place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

hangout; haunt; repair; resort; stamping ground

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

gathering place (a favorite haunt where people gather)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something or someone turned to for assistance or security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

recourse; refuge; resort

Context example:

took refuge in lying

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

resource (a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resort"):

shadow (refuge from danger or observation)

Derivation:

resort (have recourse to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Act of turning to for assistance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recourse; refuge; resort

Context example:

an appeal to his uncle was his last resort

Hypernyms ("resort" is a kind of...):

aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Derivation:

resort (have recourse to)

• RESORT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resort    ... he / she / it resorts   
Past simple: resorted   
Past participle: resorted   
-ing form: resorting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have recourse to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

fall back; recur; resort

Context example:

The government resorted to rationing meat

Hypernyms (to "resort" is one way to...):

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resort (act of turning to for assistance)

resort (something or someone turned to for assistance or security)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move, travel, or proceed toward some place

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

repair; resort

Context example:

He repaired to his cabin in the woods

Hypernyms (to "resort" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

resort (a hotel located in a resort area)

 Context examples 

Aries is the sign of adventure, so choose a setting you’ve never been to, and plan an active vacation at a hotel or resort that will allow you to participate in sports.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I shall simply require to be deposited in that place of universal resort, where

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Every criminal resort which Shlessinger might frequent was drawn in vain.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Since the discovery of the first planets outside our solar system more than two decades ago, researchers have resorted to a laborious, one-by-one process of verifying suspected planets.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

It is the last resort for people with heart failure when all other treatments have failed.

(Heart Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Generally this route is considered as a last resort for drug administration, and provides a fast, effective means of drug delivery in a patient who requires immediate medication.

(Endotracheal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbon dioxide is released when farmers resort to burning as a cheap way to get rid of agricultural residues.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

This time, having missed the boat, and not being in the same position as in the previous instances, Wolf Larsen was compelled to resort to a different manœuvre.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella's invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it, without resorting to invention.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)