Invite

Definition: Invite

Invite

Noun

1. A colloquial expression for invitation; "he didn't get no invite to the party".

Verb

1. Increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism".

2. Invite someone to one's house; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?".

3. Give rise to a desire.

4. Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.

5. Have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant".

6. Ask to enter; "We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee".

7. Request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference".

8. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "invite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Invite

Attention

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Motive

Persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.

Offer

Verb: offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward.

Request

Verb: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim; (demand); offer up prayers; (worship); whistle for.

Crosswords: Invite

French (invites).

Why did I ever invite that bear to lunch? (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 mph, somehow, you don't invite happiness in without a full body search. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

I think he regifted, then he degifted, and now he's using an upstairs invite as a springboard to a Superbowl sex romp! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Did you invite him to live with you? (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

You invite our enemies to our planet? (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

Invite monsieur � dîner (1932)

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Books

• Acts 29: 50 Days to Invite the Holy Spirit (reference)

• Calling All Angels!: 57 Ways to Invite an Angel into Your Life (reference)

• Fully Alive From 9 to 5!: Creating Work Environments That Invite Health, Humor, Compassion and Truth (reference)

• God Is in the Small Stuff and It All Matters: Stop Worrying and Invite God into the Details of Your Life (reference)

• Magickal Mystical Creatures: Invite Their Powers Into Your Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Workin' Birds 2 - Invite a Honker To Dinner (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hervé Joulain: Invite [IMPORT] (reference)

• Invite You to Listen & Relax (Jpn Lp Sle [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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University Park where 300 residence sites invite the home builder - the investor The wonderful sale is now on! An event in Allegheny's history / / The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati, O. Credit: Library of Congress.

Labor-management committees in various plants invite members of the armed forces to attend rallies of workers to emphasize the importance of production in the war effort. Here soldiers mingle with workers at the Johns-Manville plant, Manville, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barbara Dane, James Johnson (Ft. Hood 3), Dr. Howard Levy, Peter Yarrow invite you to FTA : Freak the Army and other services ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Committee may, if it thinks necessary, invite other Members to appoint representatives. (reference)

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Invite him to dinner, Emma, and help him to the best of the fish and the chicken, but leave him to chuse his own wife.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner.

His expression was kind, but it did not invite approach, and he never returned a look.

And you invite me to be one of you.

They says you can invite folks if you want.

I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England.

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Health

Researchers then examine this information to determine if the epilepsy is in fact hereditary, and they may invite participants to enroll in genetic research studies. (references)

More individualized care plans, which are based on a better understanding of individual client preferences, may avoid the use of psychoactive drugs that invite iatrogenic complications. (references)

Business

The airline plans to invite expressions of interest for a joint venture to upgrade these facilities. (references)

Since Osaka City is trying to invite the Summer Olympic Games of 2008 to the city, OPG is making efforts to "internationalize. (references)

CPC will invite major international oil firms to be strategic investors in the second phase of the firm's privatization process. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

When the Cuban Embassy began the to prepare the documents, the Ministry of Justice recommended that Cuba invite the representatives of the proregime Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union instead. (references)

Latvia

Foreign evangelists and missionaries are permitted to hold meetings and to proselytize, but the law stipulates that only domestic religious organizations may invite them to conduct such activities. (references)

Switzerland

The practice has been in effect since 1995, when a district court upheld fines levied on Scientologists by the city for accosting passersby to invite them onto their premises to sell them books and administer personality tests. (references)

Economic History

Madagascar

They also may invite a pastor to attend a famadihana. (references)

Spain

Government agencies can also pre-qualify companies and invite them for a restricted procurement. (references)

Netherlands

Sharply rising inflation may invite trade unions to table higher than expected contract wage demands and trigger a feared for wage-price spiral. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

The Government did not invite the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, or the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Internally Displaced Persons. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Business dinners are relatively rare, and Bahamians do not often invite new acquaintances to their homes. (references)

Colombia

Anyone planning to invite Colombians who do not already hold current visas for business meetings, trade shows, training, etc. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

The law provides for collective bargaining between workers and management in workplaces, as well as between labor federations and business associations in each sector of the economy; however, no formal collective bargaining negotiations have taken place since 1996. When labor disputes arise, the Government chooses which labor union to invite into the negotiations, selectively excluding some labor representatives. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "invite": invite in ♦ invite out ♦ invite over ♦ invite round ♦ invite smb. for a drink ♦ invite tenders for ♦ invite trouble ♦ invite up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

uitnooi, nooi. (various references)

Albanian

ftoj (ask, ask along, call). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أغرى (addict, bait, beckon, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo), ‏شجع (animate, cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, embolden, encourage, feed, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, nerve, promote, root, spur, support), ‏دعا (allege, beckon, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, name, plead, profess, purport, recall, set up, summon, term, warn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

каня (ask, kite, mean), навличам си (contract, incur, run into), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), приканвам, привличам (align, allure, appeal, attach, attract, draw on, entice, fetch, inveigle, pull, seduce, whip up), поканвам (ask, bid, call in, call on, have, offer), покана (bid, bidding, call, dare, engagement, invitation, invitation card), подтиквам (actuate, fillip, goad, help forward, hypo, impel, incite, inspire, invigorate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, resolve, spur, stir up, urge on), подканвам (motivate, urge), изкушавам (tempt). (various references)

Chinese 

邀請 , 邀请 (invitation, invited, inviting). (various references)

Czech

pozvat (ask, bid, call). (various references)

Danish

indbyde. (various references)

Dutch

vragen (ask, ask for, beg, bid, request), uitnodigen (prompting, to prompt), noden (needs), inviteren. (various references)

Esperanto

inviti. (various references)

Faeroese

bjóða (advance, bid, make an offer of, offer, propose, suggest). (various references)

Farsi 

مهمان کردن (Banquet, Guest, Treat), وعده گرفتن , وعده دادن , طلبیدن (Ask, Crave, Seek), خواندن (Intone, Read, Reading, Spell), دعوت کردن (Ask, Bid). (various references)

Finnish

kutsua (ask, call, summon). (various references)

French

inviter. (various references)

Frisian

noegje, noadzje. (various references)

German

einladen (ask, ask out, entertain, extend, have around, invite out, invite round, load, to invite, treat), bitten (appeal, ask, ask for, ask request, beg, beseech, bid, petition, petitions, plead, pleading, prithee, request, solicit, solicitation, Sue, to ask request, to please, to request), auffordern (ask, ask to dance, challenge, request, summon, to invite, to summon). (various references)

Greek 

προσκαλώ (call on, have in, invite to). (various references)

Hawaiian

ftoj. (various references)

Hebrew 

לזמן (convene, prepare, summon), ל�"זמין (ask, send for). (various references)

Hungarian

meghívás (bid, bidding, invitation), meghív (ask, bade, bid, bidden, to bid, to lathe), hív (call, summon, to call, to clepe, to get in, to invoke, yclept), felszólít (call, to call on, to call upon, to desire, to summon, to warn, warn), ösztönöz (drive, excite, incite, innervate, spur, stimulate, to actuate, to incite, to inspire, to prick, to touch up, to urge). (various references)

Icelandic

bióða. (various references)

Indonesian

mengundang (convoke), mengajak (ask), mempersilakan (ask). (various references)

Italian

invitare (ask, bid, summon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

請う (to ask, to invite, to request), 招く (to invite), 募る (etc, participation, to invite, to solicit help). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そなう (to ask, to call, to induce, to invite, to lure, to tempt), しばいにさそう (to invite a person to the theater), しょうじいれる (to invite or usher in), まねく (to invite), さそう (to call out, to invite), さそいかける (to invite), さそい�"む (to entice, to invite someone to join in, to tempt), さそい�'かける (to call out, to invite), さそい� す (to invite out, to lure), うながす (to demand, to incite, to invite, to press, to quicken, to stimulate, to suggest, to urge), つのる (to invite), いざなう (to ask, to call, to induce, to invite, to lure, to tempt), �"う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), よびいれる (to bring in, to call in, to invite), よぶ (to call out, to invite). (various references)

Korean 

초대하십시�". (various references)

Malay

ajak ... mengajak. (various references)

Manx

cuirrey (banquet, cite, feast, invitation, sow), cuirr (disseminate, dissemination, grow, implant, let down, plan, set, shoot, shoot as nets, sow). (various references)

Norwegian

invitere. (various references)

Papiamen

invitá, kombidá. (various references)

Pig Latin

inviteay

Polish

zaprosić. (various references)

Portuguese

convidar (ask, bid, issue an invitation, solicit, to invite), invitar. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

convidar (to invite). (various references)

Romanian

invita (ask, bid, book, call in, call on, solicit, summon, take out, tempt). (various references)

Romansch

envidar (to invite). (various references)

Romany

kanìzava (to invite). (various references)

Russian 

приглашать (ask, call in, retain). (various references)

Scottish

fiadhaich (boisterous, savage, tempestuous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvati (call, summon), pozvati (ask, call, call in, call on, call up). (various references)

Shona

-koka (to invite). (various references)

Spanish

invitar (ask, ask along, ask back, ask out, ask round, have down, have up, invite out, invite over, set up, take out). (various references)

Swedish

invitera, inbjuda (ask), bjuda (advance, bid, enjoin, entertain, go, offer, order, propose, say, suggest, treat). (various references)

Tagalog

anyayáhan. (various references)

Turkish

istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call on, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, enjoin, exact, fancy, hanker, hope, intend, like, long, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), davet etmek (ask, bade, bid, call, call in, challenge, convoke, court, cry out), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), çağırmak (call, call away, call for, call in, cite, cry out, hail, invoke, shout to, sing, summon, whistle up). (various references)

Turkmen 

зagyrmak (summon), зagarmak (call). (various references)

Ukrainian

схиляти (bias, dispose, predispose), запрошувати (ask, bid, book, call in, indite), запрошення (bid, calling, card, engagement, invitation), привертати (commend, draw, predispose). (various references)

Welsh

gwahodd (bid). (various references)

accendam, acces, accitis, accitisque, accitoque, accitum, adhibe, adhibebitur, adhibere, adhibui, adhibuissent, advocabit, advocans, advocantem, advocatum, advocatus, advocaverit, arcessierunt, arcessito, inrogaverit, invitati, invitatis, invitatos, invitatus, invitaverat, invitavit, roga, rogabamus, rogabant, rogabat, rogabis, rogabit, rogabitis, rogabitque, rogabo, rogabunt, rogamus, rogandum, rogans, rogant, rogante, rogantes, rogantibus, rogare, rogaremus, rogaret, rogas, rogasti, rogastis, rogat, rogate, rogati, rogaveris, rogavero, rogaverunt, rogaveruntque, rogavi, rogavimus, rogavit, rogavitque, rogent, roges, roget, rogetis, rogo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "invite": invited, invitee, invitees, inviter, inviters, invites. (additional references)

Words ending with "invite": disinvite, reinvite. (additional references)

Words containing "invite": disinvited, disinvites, reinvited, reinvites, uninvited. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Invite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iinvitee, inait, inevi, ingite, iniate, inito, Innsite, Insite, invide, Invit, invita, invitar, invitta, invote, Iuvdt, Nevitt, niavite, Nivasher. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inti, nevi, nite, tine, vein, vent, vine.

-3 letters: net, nit, ten, tie, tin, vet, vie.

-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti.

+1 letter: eviting, invited, invitee, inviter, invites, unitive, viniest, vitrine.

+2 letters: divinest, evicting, eviction, genitive, inactive, inverity, invitees, inviters, lenitive, monitive, punitive, reinvite, riveting, thieving, vanitied, vanities, veiniest, vitamine, vitellin, vitrines, vituline.

+3 letters: antivenin, cognitive, deviating, deviation, disinvest, disinvite, diverting, divesting, evictions, genitival, genitives, incentive, inceptive, inductive, infective, ingestive, injective, intensive, interview, intrusive, intuitive, invective, inventing, invention, inventive, inverting, investing, inviolate, lenitives, naiveties, novitiate, nutritive, olivenite, plaintive, reinvited, reinvites, rivetting, sensitive, tantivies, uninvited, unvisited, viewpoint, vigilante, vindicate, vitamines, vitelline, vitellins.

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