Word Finder - resort

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A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

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Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

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to have resort to violence

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A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

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To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

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To fall back; to revert.

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To make one's way, go (to).

It was the last resort, but it was something.

It's probably silly, but I was thinking that this land would be a good investment for a resort retreat.

At the southern end of the boulevard de la Republique is the square de la Republique, formerly the place Bresson, in which is the municipal theatre; at the other extremity of the boulevard is the place du Gouvernement, which is planted on three sides with a double row of plane trees and is the fashionable resort for evening promenade.

During the summer it is a place of considerable resort for the sake of its waters - saline, chalybeate and sulphur - and it possesses the usual accessories of pump-rooms, baths and a recreation ground.

Miss Franny would never resort to writing something like this.

If he couldn't win an argument any other way, he could always resort to demeaning dialog.

The village is a summer resort.

Unlike you, I don't need to resort to violence to win.

It is served by the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac railway, and is a favourite resort from Richmond.

The city has several parks, including the Franklin of 90 acres, the Goodale of 44 acres, and the Schiller of 24 acres, besides the Olentangy, a well-equipped amusement resort on the banks of the river from which it is named, the Indianola, another amusement resort, and the United States military post and recruiting station, which occupies 80 acres laid out like a park.

Excluded from parliament by the fatal error of his youth, he was compelled to resort to indirect means of working out his plans by influencing public men.

The town is in repute as a holiday resort for its healthy climate and beautiful situation.

The town lies among hills, has an excellent climate, and in colonial times was (like Holguin) an acclimatization station for troops fresh from Spain; it now has considerable repute as a health resort.

Santa Cruz is a popular seaside resort.

Sergiyevo has long been renowned for its manufacture of holy pictures (painted and carved), spoons, and other articles carved in wood, especially toys, which are sold to pilgrims who resort to the place to the number of ioo,000 annually.

It is a favourite summer resort, and has steamboat communication with other ports on Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching.

For the period before the adoption of a written standard the resort was not so much to " apostles " as to " disciples " and " witnesses."

The nature of the heresy, opposed, however, and the resort to the authority of Jude " the brother of James " against it, favour rather the period of Polycarp and Papias (117-150).

The city has a fine location, its natural attractiveness and mineral springs in the vicinity combining to make it a summer and health resort.

The town is a bathing resort, as is Elisenlund close by.

The Parque Urbano, at the Playa Ramirez bathing resort, is a modern creation.

Besides being one of the sights of Paris, to which visitors resort in order to enjoy the extensive view that can be had from its higher galleries on a clear day, the tower is used to some extent for scientific and semi-scientific purposes; thus meteorological observations are carried on.

El Reno has a Carnegie library, and within the city's limits is Bellamy's Lake (180 acres), a favourite resort.

The election was contested, and his choice was confirmed by the legislature, the court of last resort in such cases.

Its valley, the lower part of which divides the Taunus hills from the Westerwald, is often very narrow and picturesque; among the towns and sites of interest on its banks are Marburg and Giessen with their universities, Wetzlar with its cathedral, Runkel with its castle, Limburg with its cathedral, the castles of Schaumburg, Balduinstein, Laurenburg, Langenau, Burgstein and Nassau, and the well-known health resort of Ems. The Lahn is about 135 m.

On the neighbouring coast is Marianao Beach, a popular bathing resort.

Of these Hurlingham Park is the headquarters of the Hurlingham Polo Club and a fashionable resort; and Queen's Club, West Kensington, has tennis and other courts for the use of members, and is also the scene of important football matches, and of the athletic meetings between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and those between the English and American Universities held in England.

The town, however, is in growing repute as a midsummer resort.

The water supply is derived from Lake Kerferd in the vicinity, which is a favourite resort of visitors; the scenery near the town, which lies at an elevation of 1805 ft.

The place is now famous as a resort of pilgrims, and is also important for the history of Italian art.

The town is a fashionable summer resort.

Whitby is a quiet resort, possessing none of the brilliance of Scarborough on the same coast.

If they refused to listen he could punish them in any manner he thought fit; in the last resort he could release their subjects from allegiance and head a crusade of Catholic powers against them.

Renwick Beach, at the head of the lake, is a pleasure resort.

It has come into great favour as a winter resort, especially with British and German visitors, chiefly on account of its fine situation and beautiful .views.

In this he considers briefly the best means of peaceable resistance to the policy of the ministry, but even at that early date faces frankly and fully the probable final necessity of resisting by force, and endorses it, though only as a last resort.

As a remedy for such a breach of compact the state might resort to nullification, or, as a last resort, to secession from the Union.

It is, however, as a popular summer resort that Ballston Spa is best known.

But the picturesque scenery and delightful summer climate have made New England a favourite resort.

The Strand, the modern portion of the town, has all the attributes of a seaside resort.

Yet there is no opposition between the physical and final causes; in ultimate resort the mind is compelled to think the universe as the work of reason, to refer facts to God and Providence.

In the 16th century Blois was often the resort of the French court.

Its importance declined about the time of the Reformation when it ceased to be a resort of pilgrims.

The city and surrounding region are a summer resort, the lakes affording opportunities for fishing and for yachting and boating.

A building called the Rotunda was erected for concerts, and the gardens quickly became a favourite resort of fashionable society.

Abu is now the summer residence of the governor-general's agent for Rajputana, and a place of resort for Europeans in the hot weather.

Such places are frequented by numerous flocks of aquatic birds, which resort thither in search of fish and mollusca.

Borrowers were not induced to borrow as a rule with the view of employing the capital so obtained at a greater profit, but they were compelled of necessity to borrow as a last resort.

The Buxton season extends from June to October, and during that period the town is visited by thousands, but it is also popular as a winter resort.

Caroline Bay, to the north, is a bathing resort.