Resort

Noun

 * 1) A compound of buildings and facilities located in a scenic area, providing lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment to people on vacation.
 * 2) recourse, refuge something or someone turned to for safety

Verb

 * 1) To make one's way, go (to).
 * 2) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

Verb

 * 1) to repeat a sorting process, see sort

Noun

 * 1) an act of resorting

Adjectives for Resort
strict; brilliant; cold; lowest; fair; pleasure; attractive; little; embryonic; mountain seasonal; favorite; fashionable; expanding imposing; dissolute; habitual; desperate summer; mundane; complete; seashore family; self-contained; beach; delightful best-loved; premier; world-famous; wonderful.

Verbs for Resort
crowd—; fill—; frequent—; infest—; retire to—; repair to—; swamp—s; —advertises; —appeals; —attracts; —consoles; —delights; —eases; —offers; —refreshes; — strengthens.

Thesaurus
ability, action, ad hoc measure, affect, agency, alternative, amusement park, answer, artifice, attend, backup, ballroom, baths, cabaret, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, capacity, capital, casino, club, clubhouse, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, demarche, dernier ressort, device, devices, disposable resources, dodge, effort, entertainment industry, expediency, expedient, fall back on, frequent, fun-fair, funds, gambling house, gathering place, gimmick, going between, hang, hang around, hangout, haunt, have recourse to, health resort, hope, improvisation, instrumentality, intermediation, juke joint, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, last expedient, last resort, last shift, look to, machinery, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, mechanism, mediation, meeting place, method, move, night spot, nightclub, nitery, patronize, pis aller, power, purlieu, rallying point, recourse, recourses, refuge, remedy, rendezvous, repair to, reserve, resort to, resorts, resource, resources, retreat, roadhouse, service, shake-up, shift, show biz, show business, solution, spa, springs, stamping, stamping ground, step, stock, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, supply, tactic, take to, tavern, temporary expedient, theater, trick, trump, turn to, visit, watering place, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal, working hypothesis, working proposition

Etymology 1
From resorten:, from  resortir:, back-formation from sortir:.

Derived terms

 * last resort

Noun

 * Armenian: կուրորտ,
 * Bulgarian: курорт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 度假勝地, 度假胜地, 度假村
 * Finnish: lomakohde, matkakohde
 * French: lieu de vacances, resort
 * German: Kurort, Resort


 * Greek:
 * Japanese: リゾート
 * Persian:
 * Polish: kurort, uzdrowisko
 * Russian: курорт, здравница
 * Spanish: estación turística
 * Turkish:


 * German: Ausweg, Zuflucht


 * Spanish: recurso, refugio

Verb

 * Finnish: turvautua
 * French:
 * Greek:, προσφεύγω


 * Polish: uciec się, uciekać się
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Finnish: uudelleenjärjestää, järjestää uudelleen
 * French: retrier
 * Greek: επαναταξινομώ


 * Polish: posortować ponownie
 * Spanish:, , reacomodar

Anagrams

 * retros
 * roster
 * sorter
 * storer