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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
invite
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ask/invite sb to dinner
▪ Let's ask Kate and Mike to dinner.
be called/invited for (an) interview
▪ Applicants who are called for interview may be asked to have a medical exam.
invite a guest
▪ The guests were invited to a dinner at his country house.
invite comment(s) (=ask people to give an opinion)
▪ The website invites comments from people who visit it.
invite sb to a party
▪ I’ve been invited to Greg’s party next weekend.
invited guests
▪ Celebrations continued with a dinner for 100 invited guests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dinner
▪ In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city, whose son is a student of.
▪ When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face.
▪ She had wild visions of being obliged to invite him to dinner every night.
▪ Better yet, invite her to dinner.
▪ I'd been invited to dinner too, but declined.
▪ The general invites her for dinner.
▪ He said he'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived.
▪ She said she invited Brown to Christmas dinner at her home and he refused.
guest
▪ They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
▪ When I was their invited guest, I was asked not to visit with her.
▪ A number of important customers were invited as guests of the company.
▪ If he takes her back to his place, it will mean he has invited other guests.
▪ These are your invited guests, Atlanta, not army troops.
home
▪ He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home.
▪ Decide what you want to invite into your home.
▪ Some of her married friends will still invite her to their homes, but her ties with others will be weakened.
▪ As a matter of course, Amy invited children from the Home over to play.
▪ We would meet secretly and, when she knew her father was away, I was invited to her home.
▪ We want to invite you to our home.
▪ Ever since his divorce, nearly a dozen years ago, no student had been invited to his home.
house
▪ The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint.
▪ And I invited them to my house, and they met.
▪ Indeed, all the time I was at Salamanca, I was never once invited to anyone's house.
▪ Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.
▪ He invited friends to his house and accepted invitations to theirs.
▪ Political supporters have been invited to White House functions since the beginning of the republic.
▪ He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house - he usually got no further than the front doorstep.
▪ He invited me to his house and as I feasted he killed me.
meeting
▪ Vicki tells her that when the ship landed, the crew were invited to a meeting by the local inhabitants.
▪ Neighboring residents also will be invited to attend the meetings.
▪ The remaining ministers and elders found themselves being invited to address meetings all over the province to explain the imprisonment.
▪ Representatives of relevant international organizations may be invited to these meetings. 22.
▪ Parties to the Protocols have the right to be invited to meetings and consultations with the Treaty parties.
▪ On the fourth Tuesday of each month Speakers are invited to meetings of the Society.
▪ Ideas and suggestions for the way the community group runs are invited at tonight's meeting.
▪ They nodded and invited him to a meeting.
party
▪ Which is why they were invited to the party.
▪ Normally when they were invited to a party George never wanted to go.
▪ They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.
▪ You are invited to a party and after a couple of drinks you decide a few crisps or nuts will not hurt.
▪ Dear Ursula: I was invited to an engagement party for a couple I barely know.
▪ The Department of Education is inviting interested parties to submit comments on the new support arrangements by October 31.
▪ Charles had not wished to invite Ivan to the party.
reader
▪ At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.
▪ A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
▪ Last autumn, we invited readers to contribute essays on how they believed information technology would change life in Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Allowing a sixteen-year-old to stay out all night is just inviting trouble.
▪ Applications for this position are invited from all individuals with relevant experience.
▪ At the end of the lecture, Dr. Bosch invited the audience to ask questions and share their ideas.
▪ If you don't maintain your car regularly, you're just inviting trouble.
▪ Not to provide aid will just invite further catastrophe in the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In fact, their purpose in inviting him to lunch was to ask him to divorce her.
▪ Indeed they seemed to invite persecution by preaching openly in public places.
▪ Perhaps movie marketers should have been more careful about inviting comparisons.
▪ The adults in these rooms invite the students they work with to be part of a community as well.
▪ The demonstrators invited retaliation and got it, with sticks and clubs and arrests.
▪ Those of you who are teaching and training teachers for school, I would invite to rebellion.
▪ What he doesn't do in contrast to his practice with musical guests is to invite Jazzie to talk.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mickey's invited us to a party at his house, and no one turns down an invite to Mickey's!
▪ These days it's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invite

Invite \In*vite"\, v. i. To give invitation.
--Milton.

Invite

Invite \In*vite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inviting.] [L. invitare: cf. F. inviter. See Vie.]

  1. 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.

    So many guests invite as here are writ.
    --Shak.

    I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this.
    --Carlyle.

  2. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

    To inveigle and invite the unwary sense.
    --Milton.

    Shady groves, that easy sleep invite.
    --Dryden.

    There no delusive hope invites despair.
    --Cowper.

  3. To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.

    Syn: To solicit; bid; call; ask; summon; allure; attract; entice; persuade.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invite

1530s, a back-formation from invitation, or else from Middle French inviter, from Latin invitare "to invite," also "to summon, challenge." As a noun variant of invitation it is attested from 1650s. Related: Invited; inviting.

invite

1650s, from invite (v.).

Wiktionary
invite

n. (context informal English) An invitation. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. 2 (context transitive English) To request formally. 3 (context transitive English) To encourage. 4 (context transitive English) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

WordNet
invite

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

invite
  1. v. increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" [syn: ask for]

  2. invite someone to one's house; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?" [syn: ask over, ask round]

  3. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers" [syn: tempt]

  4. ask someone in a friendly way to do something [syn: bid]

  5. have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant" [syn: pay for]

  6. ask to enter; "We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee" [syn: ask in]

  7. request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference" [syn: call for]

  8. express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" [syn: receive, take in]

Usage examples of "invite".

Watts, who was invited by Lady Abney to pass a fortnight at her home, and remained for forty years.

Ramsay Kent, relocated Yorkshire baronet, geologist, and adopted Absarokee married to his aunt, Hazard studied geology under the noted Swiss naturalist Agassiz, who had been invited to deliver a course of lectures at Harvard in 1847, subsequently had been offered a chair, and had stayed.

On the evening he invited Adams to go along with him to meet Abigail, the middle sister, it was for Adams anything but love at first sight.

On June 8, the day Washington called a special session of the Senate to consider the treaty, he invited Adams to dine alone with him.

Several days later, they invited Jefferson to dine, one of several events that belie claims made then and later that Adams and Jefferson refused to speak.

It is also quite possible that Adams was not invited to attend, or made to feel he would be welcome.

Yet when this great man, after whom Linnaeus himself named the baobab tree Adansonia digitata, was invited to become a member of the Institute a little before I had the honour of addressing it, he did not possess a whole shirt nor yet an untorn pair of breeches in which he could attend, still less a coat, God rest his soul.

Proudly, the Afridi twitched back the wrappings and presented the rest of the baby to Lily, inviting her to share in the pleasure and relief that another boy had been born to the tribe.

Leweli was invited to stay in the great house, along with Dapple, but Ahl went back to the Foam Bird with Ki.

In Albania he chanced to knock at the gate of the castle belonging to the head of the powerful Wallenstein clan, where he was duly invited to spend the night.

In the hall of his palace where, under the sooty rafters, there hung the heads, pelts, and horns of wild beasts, he held feasts to which all the harpers of Alca and of the neighbouring islands were invited, and he himself used to join in singing the praises of the heroes.

As though this were not enough, I was invited to beard Hassan of Aleppo, the most dreadful being I had ever encountered East or West, in his mysterious stronghold!

I would suggest that of your bedroom - and invite Hassan of Aleppo to come and discuss terms!

I may as well break it to you now, as I had to do to Nevill when he invited me to come to Algiers and straighten out his housekeeping accounts: they play Ruth to my Naomi.

Captain Miles Standish, the leader of a group of religious fanatics from England, who believed in the imminent arrival of Armageddon in Europe, invited a local tribe of Algonkian Indians, the Wampanoag, to join them for a dinner celebrating the good fortune that had seen their immigrant community established in New England.