invite
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
invite (invites, present participle inviting; past and past participle invited)
- (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- (transitive) To request formally.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- (transitive) To encourage.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- 1902, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864 ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837 ↗:
- to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
- (ask for the presence or participation of) ask out
- (request formally) ask, beseech, entreat, request
- (encourage) ask for, encourage, provoke
- French: inviter, convier
- German: einladen
- Italian: invitare
- Portuguese: convidar
- Russian: приглаша́ть
- Spanish: invitar, convidar
- Portuguese: convidar
- Russian: проси́ть
invite (plural invites)
- (informal) An invitation.
- French: invitation
- German: Einladung
- Italian: invito
- Portuguese: convite
- Russian: приглаше́ние
- Spanish: invitación
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