MEANING
A place developed or regularly visited for holidays, recreation, or leisure.
Use it for
Tourism economies; seasonal populations; leisure routinesShow how visitors' recreation sets the place's daily rhythm.
Words that belong together
- seaside resort
- mountain resort
- holiday resort
On the page
The resort hired half its staff only during the summer season.
Behind the resort's welcome desk, workers negotiated who could afford local rent.
They returned to the same resort because the children knew every organizer by name.
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Word forms
- Base
- resort
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. May be a town, district, or accommodation complex. Emphasizes organized recreation, not guaranteed luxury or natural beauty; unrelated last-resort sense omitted. Plural: resorts. No other inflection applies to this noun.
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