resort

Meanings

Noun

• A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
• Recourse, refuge .
• A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
• An act of sorting again.
• Active power or movement; spring.

Verb

• To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
• To fall back; to revert.
• To make one's way, go (to).
• To repeat a sorting process; sort again.

Origin

• From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir ("to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal"), back-formation from sortir.
• re- + sort
• From French ressort.