Usually means: Place for relaxation, recreation, vacation.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word resort:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. resort: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. resort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. resort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. resort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. resort: Vocabulary.com
  6. Resort, resort: Wordnik
  7. resort: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. resort: Wiktionary
  9. resort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. resort: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Resort, resort: Dictionary.com
  12. resort (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. resort: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. R.E.S.O.R.T, Resort (disambiguation), Resort, The Resort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Resort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. resort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. resort: Rhymezone
  18. resort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. resort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. resort: Free Dictionary
  21. resort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. resort: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. resort: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resort: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. resort: Idioms

(Note: See resorted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
noun:  Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
noun:  (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
noun:  (government) A subdivision of Suriname; a division of the country's districts.
verb:  (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
verb:  (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
noun:  (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography) [(transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of re-sort. [An act of sorting again.]

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