Invite
[ɪn'vaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a colloquial expression for invitation; 'he didn't get no invite to the party'.
(verb.) ask someone in a friendly way to do something.
(verb.) request the participation or presence of; 'The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference'.
(verb.) ask to enter; 'We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee'.
(verb.) increase the likelihood of; 'ask for trouble'; 'invite criticism'.
(verb.) invite someone to one's house; 'Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?'.
(verb.) have as a guest; 'I invited them to a restaurant'.
Edited by Ivan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.
(v. t.) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
(v. t.) To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.
(v. i.) To give invitation.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Solicit, bid, summon, call, ask, request.[2]. Allure, attract, entice, lead, draw on, prevail upon.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ask, summon, call, challenge, attract, allure, tempt, incite, request, solicit
ANT:Forbid, exclude, discard, deprecate, repel
Checked by Charlie
Definition
v.t. to ask: to summon: to allure: to attract.—v.i. to ask in invitation.—n. Invitā′tion the act of inviting: an asking or solicitation the written or verbal form with which a person is invited: the brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.—adj. Invit′ātory using or containing invitation.—n. a form of invitation in worship esp. the antiphon to the Venite or 95th Psalm.—ns. Invite′ment (Lamb) allurement temptation; Invit′er.—p.adj. Invit′ing alluring: attractive.—n. (Shak.) invitation.—adv. Invit′ingly in an inviting manner.—n. Invit′ingness attractiveness.
Edited by Bernice
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you invite persons to visit you, denotes that some unpleasant event is near, and will cause worry and excitement in your otherwise pleasant surroundings. If you are invited to make a visit, you will receive sad news. For a woman to dream that she is invited to attend a party, she will have pleasant anticipations, but ill luck will mar them.
Editor: Xenia
Examples
- I cordially invite you, sir, to second my efforts in the sacred interests of the family. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I did not invite her back till it was too late. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It will not do to _invite_ five couple. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He now inferred that she had asked her uncle to invite Will to the Grange; and she felt it impossible at that moment to enter into any explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I had better not invite the girl's confidence, with the Sergeant on the look-out to surprise us together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before giving him any order as to the part he was to play in the approaching campaign I invited his views. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were invited, were not they? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Hannah Brown will preside, and all are invited to attend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Needless to say, this weak aristocratic republic, with its recurrent royal elections, invited aggression from all three of its neighbours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With this view, Mr. Wardle invited the full circle to dinner at the Adelphi; and the decanters having been thrice sent round, opened the business. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She smiled and added: I must go where I am invited, or I should be too lonely. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Unless you are inviting death for us all you had best drop, and that quickly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This was her way of inviting her guest to take a chair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- On so inviting a morning, too, it was very tantalising to turn back, and leave his friends to enjoy themselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Elton's invitations I should have imagined any thing but inviting. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The green turf looked soft and cool and inviting. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The weather was clear and Popocatapetl stood out in all its beauty, the top looking as if not a mile away, and inviting us to return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And therefore, I said, as we might expect, there is nothing here which invites or excites intelligence. Plato. The Republic.
- Like invites like for good or for evil. Plato. The Republic.
- It is the natural hill, with its mossy breaks and hollows, whose slope invites ascent, whose summit it is pleasure to gain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs Lammle, on a sofa by a table, invites Mr Twemlow's attention to a book of portraits in her hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He is not disdainful of the study of the lower animals, but invites us to investigate all forms in the expectancy of discovering something natural and beautiful. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Nora