Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who frequents resorts for vacations or recreation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who resorts, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who resorts; a frequenter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who resorts; a frequenter.

Etymologies

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resort +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Half awake and half asleep, this idle morning in our sunny window on the edge of a chalk-cliff in the old-fashioned watering-place to which we are a faithful resorter, we feel a lazy inclination to sketch its picture.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • I began to wonder whether I was a summer resorter instead of a soldier.

    Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun James Rogers 1917

  • I began to wonder whether I was a summer resorter instead of a soldier.

    Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun 1902

  • They had been put in the horse stable for there was no dog house; the health resorter, actual or prospective, is not likely to be a dog man one supposes; but they were loose in the morning and came to the call, all but one -- Nanook.

    Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

  • Heaven help us when the summer resorter discovers that the Lotus is further away from Broadway than Thousand Islands or

    The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • Rainy Lake still had ice on Tuesday, but another resorter, Barry Woods, said anglers finally were giving up on ice fishing as the lake began to open up around the edges this week.

    The Albert Lea Tribune Staff 2010

  • Rainy Lake still had ice on Tuesday, but another resorter, Barry Woods, said anglers finally were giving up on ice fishing as the lake began to open up around the edges this week.

    The Albert Lea Tribune Staff 2010

  • a tourist and summer resorter this season, having saturated my system with nineteen different styles of mineral water in Wisconsin alone, and tried to win the attention of nineteen different styles of head waiters at these summer hotels.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • Staff and produced at Covent Garden in aid of the family of Leigh Hunt, ends with the words, "_Every_ resorter to the stalls and boxes will be expected to purchase a copy of either 'Dombey,' _Punch_, or 'Jerrold's

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

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