## Meanings
1. A place where people go on holiday for rest and recreation.
2. To turn to something, often unwanted, because no other choice remains.
3. Someone or something turned to for help or safety.

## Examples
- They spent a week at a beach resort in the West Country.
- The government resorted to rationing meat during the war.
- Violence should always be the last resort.

## Derived Forms
- ecoresort
- megaresort
- resorter
- resortlike

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: resorten
- Root: resortir

## Etymology
From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

## AI Etymology
Resort comes from Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”). Modern senses include a place where people go on holiday for rest and recreation. and to turn to something, often unwanted, because no other choice remains.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as ecoresort, megaresort, resorter, and resortlike.

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