resort

1. 1.

   have recourse to

   “The government resorted to rationing meat”

   Synonymsfall backrecur

   Broaderuse
2. 2.

   move, travel, or proceed toward some place

   “He repaired to his cabin in the woods”

   Synonymsrepair

   Broadertravel

Other forms of resort

plural

resorts·

past tense

resorted·

present participle

resorting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about resort

What does resort mean?

resort means "a hotel located in a resort area". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in resort?

resort has 2 syllables: re-sort. The stress falls on "sort". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈzɔɹt/.

What is another word for resort?

Close synonyms include resort hotel, holiday resort, haunt, hangout, repair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is resort a common word?

resort is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with resort?

1 word rhymes with resort. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.