Direct Cross-Language Association: “Resort” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “resort”
resort
Direct German Translations & Equivalents:
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
(obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
(government) A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
(intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
(intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
(transitive, intransitive) Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)
Alternative spelling of re-sort.
(obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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: