resort
/ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
noun
A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
verb
Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "to have resort to violence"
- "Ioyne with me to forbid him her reſort,"
- "Far from all reſort of mirth,"
- "The king thought it time to resort to other counsels."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: resorten, resortir, ressort
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/
- British English: /ɹɪˈzɔːt/