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Invite   /ɪnvˈaɪt/   Listen
Invite

verb
(past & past part. invited; pres. part. inviting)
1.
Increase the likelihood of.  Synonym: ask for.  "Invite criticism"
2.
Invite someone to one's house.  Synonyms: ask over, ask round.
3.
Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting.  Synonym: tempt.
4.
Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.  Synonym: bid.
5.
Have as a guest.  Synonym: pay for.
6.
Ask to enter.  Synonym: ask in.
7.
Request the participation or presence of.  Synonym: call for.
8.
Express willingness to have in one's home or environs.  Synonyms: receive, take in.
noun
1.
A colloquial expression for invitation.



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"Invite" Quotes from Famous Books



... what has been and what is, how is it possible not to feel a profound sense of the responsibilities of this Republic to all future ages? What vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts! What brilliant prospects invite our enthusiasm! What solemn warnings at once demand our vigilance and moderate our confidence! The Old World has already revealed to us, in its unsealed books, the beginning and the end of all marvelous struggles ...
— Successful Methods of Public Speaking • Grenville Kleiser

... surrounded by the sea, having thirty-two pieces of ordnance, and there were fifty in the town. Arriving there the 10th April, the people of the Guzerat ship landed, and told the governor that an English ship had come to trade there. The governor sent his admiral to invite our general, who went very unadvisedly on shore, where he and his attendants were received with much courtesy, three or four horses waiting for his use, and was brought in great pomp to the governor. Finding our general but a simple man, the governor put him into a house ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr

... to think the worse of her if she hasn't. The fact that she's an orphan ought, with your ideas, to be a merit. You won't have to invite her ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... being call'd for, one of 'em drank to me, and I drank to the other. After which one of 'em came pretty close up to me, and would needs have been feeling where I was'nt willing to let him, whereupon I told him he was very uncivil to invite one that was a Stranger to a Tavern; and then to offer any such thing to her. Let her alone says the other, I believe she's but new come out of the Countrey, and does not understand the way of the Town: Pray, Sweet-heart, says he, addressing himself to me, How long ...
— The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life - Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women • Anonymous

... received the King's letter, forbidding their debates, and informing them that the Queen would satisfy them very speedily about the affair of the Princes; but this letter was disregarded. They sent a deputation to invite the Duc d'Orleans to come to the House, but, after consulting with the Queen, he told the deputies that he did not care to go, that the Assembly was too noisy, that he could not divine what they would be at, that the affairs in debate were never known to fall under their cognisance, and that ...
— The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete • Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz


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