Meaning

5 senses
  1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

    Kurort, Resort, Ferienort

    куро́ртkurórt, здра́вницаzdrávnica

    куро́ртkurórt

  2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

    to have resort to violence

    Ausweg, Zuflucht

    убе́жищеubéžišče

    something or someone turned to for assistance or security

  3. A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.

  4. (obsolete)A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

  5. (obsolete)Active power or movement; spring.

Examples

205 sentences
  1. You must never resort to violence.

    ruВы никогда не должны прибегать к насилию. — fjay69

  2. You must never resort to force.

    ruВы никогда не должны прибегать к насилию. — fjay69

  3. There's no need to resort to violence.

    deEs gibt keinen Grund, auf Gewalt zurückzugreifen. — megamanenm

  4. We'll only do that as a last resort.

  5. We spent the summer at a beach resort.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a relaxing environment for people on vacation:
Русский
By meaning 2
a relaxing environment for people on vacation:
something or someone turned to for safety:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a relaxing environment for people on vacation:
something or someone turned to for safety:

Origin

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, hav

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

From French ressort.

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Forms

plural: resorts
Singularresort
Pluralresorts

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • resort to violence
  • a last resort
  • last resort

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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