a hotel located in a resort area
"After weeks of work, we finally checked into our favorite beachfront resort to relax by the ocean."
a frequently visited place
"After years of traveling to new destinations, we decided to make our family cabin on Lake Tahoe our primary resort for every summer vacation."
A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
"After a long illness, she felt her strength finally resort to an active resistance against the fatigue."
An act of sorting again.
Active power or movement; spring.
In plain English: A resort is a place where people go to relax and have fun, usually with nice hotels and activities.
"We decided to stay at a beach resort for our summer vacation."
To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
"The team had to resort their entire contact list after accidentally deleting the wrong folder during the initial cleanup."
To repeat a sorting process; sort again.
In plain English: To resort to something means you have no other choice but to use it, often as a last option when everything else has failed.
"When the traffic became too heavy, we decided to resort to taking the train instead."
Usage: Use resort as an intransitive verb meaning to turn to something, often out of necessity or desperation, rather than using it transitively with a direct object like "resorted the plan." It frequently pairs with prepositions such as "to" (e.g., resorted to violence) instead of taking a noun directly after the word.
The word resort comes from the Old French verb resortir, which originally meant to return or fall back. It entered English through Middle English as a back-formation related to the concept of going out again.