Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: resort
IPA transcription: [ɹis'ɔɹt]
Pronunciations of resort
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: resort, resort_hotel, holiday_resort
    Meaning: a hotel located in a resort area
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fall_back, resort, recur
    Meaning: have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
Usage examples
  • What is a summer resort?
  • This will be done only as a last resort."
  • "That is a violent measure to resort to."
  • "None of our people would resort to a dirty trick like that."
  • It is these, too, who are most often forced to resort to such operations.
  • In such a case we have at once to resort to a very high potency of Sulphur.
  • Let us eschew violence, which is but seldom successful, and resort to craft.
  • But the caretaker over at the summer resort has even a lonelier time, I suppose.
  • He now had the Senate, the Executive and a majority of the Court of last resort.
  • The Palazzo della Torre was for a fortnight the resort of the curious and the idle.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording BBC Radio 4, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lorne Park, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Weymouth, Dorset, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lithia Park, License CC BY-SA 4.0