invite
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See also: invité
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
invite (third-person singular simple present invites, present participle inviting, simple 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.
- Milton
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- Dryden
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- Cowper
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
- Milton
Synonyms[edit]
- (ask for the presence or participation of): ask out
- (request formally): ask, beseech, entreat, request
- (encourage): ask for, encourage, provoke
Translations[edit]
ask for the presence or participation of someone
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request formally
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encourage — see encourage
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Etymology 2[edit]
From the verb invite.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
invite (plural invites)
- (informal) An invitation.
Translations[edit]
(informal) invitation
Asturian[edit]
Verb[edit]
invite
- first-person singular present subjunctive of invitar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of invitar
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
invite
- first-person singular present indicative of inviter
- third-person singular present indicative of inviter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of inviter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of inviter
- second-person singular imperative of inviter
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
invīte
References[edit]
- invite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- invite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “invite” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
invite
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