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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
invitation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wedding invitation
▪ They had already sent out all the wedding invitations.
accept an invitation
▪ Are you going to accept their invitation to the wedding?
decline an offer/invitation etc
▪ Mary declined Jay’s invitation to dinner.
extended...invitation
▪ The Headteacher has extended an invitation to the Prime Minister to visit the school.
kind invitation
▪ Ms Jarvis is unable to accept your kind invitation.
standing invitation (=permission to visit someone whenever you like)
thank you for your kind invitation/offer (=said when thanking someone very politely for their invitation or offer)
took up the invitation
▪ Rob took up the invitation to visit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
formal
▪ The four shortlisted groups will now get formal invitations within the next few weeks to participate in the consultation phase.
▪ Two of the Volunteers attended, even though they had not received the customary formal invitations.
▪ Do you know they send out formal invitations, like at your wedding or Bar Mitzvah, to state executions?
kind
▪ Even by accepting Laura Danby's kind invitation, Meredith's own fiercely maintained independence could be said to have been undermined.
open
▪ I extend to the hon. Gentleman an open invitation to join me on any subsequent occasion.
▪ The wizards designing Macintosh considered it an open invitation to childlike play, and judged that ability among its chief attributes.
▪ The mines were dangerous, the mines were not to be left open as an invitation to any foolhardy visitor.
▪ Is there an open invitation to abuse even in some of the innocent parts?
▪ The latter is not an open invitation to intervention or a threat to sovereignty.
▪ The Carter team feared that the remark and the attitude it conveyed would be an open invitation to execute Kim.
▪ In my opinion, a skip should be regarded as an open invitation to selective plundering.
▪ An open invitation was also agreed for any District Council representative to join meetings.
■ NOUN
dinner
▪ Assuming that Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation, have they made a contract? 2.
▪ Although she had rejected his dinner invitation, somehow he had come out of the scene the victor.
▪ To his surprise, Eleanor was not bowled over by the dinner invitation.
▪ One anxious socialite complained that five of her dinner invitations had been cancelled.
party
▪ BBut for a birth announcement or party invitation, it makes for a wonderfully elegant presentation.
▪ Those cute little programs that make party invitations for the kids can chew up 40 or 50 megs.
▪ Send the party invitations out on a card shaped in the number of the birthday child's age.
wedding
▪ A sign warning trespassers printed in the copper-plate script normally reserved for wedding invitations would inhibit nobody.
▪ However the first indication your guests will receive as to your plans, is when their wedding invitation arrives.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Assuming that Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation, have they made a contract? 2.
▪ In another part of his letter Yevtushenko had confirmed that Bulat Okudzhava would be accepting my invitation.
▪ Two hundred of them accepted the invitation, ending their visit with tea and scones in the school hall.
▪ He wanted her to accept the Hamiltons' invitation.
▪ And she had all morning and part of the afternoon to decide whether or not to accept this imperious invitation.
▪ Not surprisingly, the two parties were the only ones to accept each other's invitations.
▪ The unexpected break, hard on the heels of her disaster with Giles, had nudged her into accepting Clive's invitation.
▪ She'd felt quite frightened and hadn't accepted the invitation.
attend
▪ The question of an invitation to Gorbachev to attend the G-7 meeting was also raised at these meetings.
▪ The letter was an invitation to attend the conference as an observer.
decline
▪ He declined three or four invitations to parties.
▪ Oh, she was tired and had taken to declining All invitations to feasts Due to the confusion Between cowboys and priests.
▪ There won't be any Labour representation at the dinner, because the town's Mayor has now declined his invitation.
▪ As he declined the invitation it is unnecessary to consider further what would have been the effect of such a joinder.
▪ Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media's industry hacks at the Labour party conference.
▪ I declined the invitation the only thoughts in my head were finding my bed to soothe away the aches and pains.
▪ John Betjeman and Ted Hughes had both declined my invitation to do this.
extend
▪ I extend an invitation to the Minister to visit the community.
▪ Q: Will you extend a special invitation to them?
▪ Consideration should be given to extending an invitation to those on the mailing list.
▪ My wife will extend the invitation to the Carsons.
follow
▪ The policeman then asked for a lift, followed by an invitation to dinner.
▪ As Madame Delon had predicted, her enquiry met with a cordial response followed by an unexpected invitation to lunch.
▪ Once you have got a favourable response, you follow through with an invitation to a social event.
include
▪ Our holidays all include a special invitation to join us for coffee at our Saturday morning welcome party.
issue
▪ Once you have issued the invitation it is important to make sure that the photographers will be able to do their job.
▪ It was unclear who issued the invitation to Wynn.
▪ It will, however, be trespass if she had no authority to issue that invitation.
▪ She sent Talivaldis to the store for a large loaf of Wonder Bread and knocked on doors, issuing invitations.
▪ Nigel decided to leave things a few weeks then issue an invitation to dinner.
▪ To draw attention to the hospitality provided at his inn Freeth issued printed invitation cards, written in verse.
join
▪ Our holidays all include a special invitation to join us for coffee at our Saturday morning welcome party.
▪ No offer of financial help, no kind invitations to join them in club activities were forthcoming from Charles.
▪ I extend to the hon. Gentleman an open invitation to join me on any subsequent occasion.
lunch
▪ Miranda's heart had looped the loop as she happily accepted an invitation to lunch at Rules, his favourite restaurant.
▪ As Madame Delon had predicted, her enquiry met with a cordial response followed by an unexpected invitation to lunch.
meet
▪ Suchocka was reported to have refused an invitation to meet the strikers.
▪ The invitation to meet the oldest reptile in the world drew the major world Press.
offer
▪ Everyone will either sympathize with your terrible squint or think that you are offering some form of invitation.
▪ In offering the invitation, Clinton waved off cautionary signals from within his administration.
▪ They also offer a mail order invitation service.
receive
▪ Every club in the country should be receiving an invitation to enter.
▪ The list includes such information as Social Security numbers, and how often a person has received White House social invitations.
▪ He won the Championship in September 1991, but received his invitation only a couple of months ago.
▪ Two of the Volunteers attended, even though they had not received the customary formal invitations.
▪ Since taking office, you have received many invitations to similar events hosted by the Conservative and Reform movements.
▪ He accepted and asked another member of the staff, who had received a similar invitation, to accompany him.
▪ Edgar Linton entered, his handsome face full of delight at receiving Catherine's unexpected invitation.
▪ At the end of two months she received no invitation to live at any of their houses.
refuse
▪ Suchocka was reported to have refused an invitation to meet the strikers.
▪ It reminded her of why she had started refusing most invitations to date a long time ago.
▪ He rose and made his farewells, politely refusing Benedicta's invitation to stay longer.
▪ Indeed, he has refused invitations to do so.
▪ Who could refuse such an invitation, knowing that this would be the trip of a lifetime.
▪ After politely refusing her many invitations to stay longer, we headed off.
reject
▪ Although she had rejected his dinner invitation, somehow he had come out of the scene the victor.
▪ Habash rejected the invitation, as well as the election.
▪ Following a meeting on June 15, however, the parties issued a joint statement rejecting the President's invitation.
▪ Daley was so confident nothing could happen in Chicago that he rudely rejected the invitation from Washington.
▪ Once Shamir had rejected this invitation, Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority.
▪ He routinely rejects invitations to speak at fund-raising events.
▪ He has rejected invitations to appear on national talk shows and has limited his out-of-state speaking engagements.
respond
▪ Reluctantly, and after much soul-searching, they decided to respond to Lvov's invitation.
▪ Do respond quickly to this invitation as there's not much time left!
send
▪ The church sends an invitation to any who do not belong to a particular church, but would like to join in.
▪ With sadness Heather sent the second invitation to Miss Poole.
▪ Specialist magazines are frequently overlooked when sending out releases or invitations to press receptions.
▪ He gets married without sending you an invitation. 3.
▪ Do you know they send out formal invitations, like at your wedding or Bar Mitzvah, to state executions?
speak
▪ He routinely rejects invitations to speak at fund-raising events.
▪ Requests for interviews, invitations to speak to students, and opportunities to write articles for magazines poured in.
turn
▪ The Tams, both 83, have turned down repeated invitations from their three sons in the United States to join them.
▪ That is, under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty.
▪ Eulah Mae turned the invitation over in her mind.
▪ So turn an invitation into a wonderful treat and enjoy it!
▪ You turn down invitations to anything off-beat.
visit
▪ Robert Fraser wanted to take up the invitation to visit my studio.
write
▪ It is revealing how generously the artists to whom the college wrote responded to the invitation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an open invitation
▪ An unlocked car is an open invitation to thieves.
▪ I extend to the hon. Gentleman an open invitation to join me on any subsequent occasion.
▪ If a thief steals it, you could be giving him an open invitation to your home!
▪ In my opinion, a skip should be regarded as an open invitation to selective plundering.
▪ Is there an open invitation to abuse even in some of the innocent parts?
▪ It would also have been an open invitation to civic disturbance.
▪ The Carter team feared that the remark and the attitude it conveyed would be an open invitation to execute Kim.
▪ The latter is not an open invitation to intervention or a threat to sovereignty.
▪ The wizards designing Macintosh considered it an open invitation to childlike play, and judged that ability among its chief attributes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a wedding invitation
▪ How many invitations did you send out?
▪ I'm afraid I have to turn down your invitation to dinner.
▪ Thanks for your invitation. I'd love to come.
▪ They had come aboard at Charles's invitation.
▪ Winston gratefully accepted the invitation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As she expected, April accepted her invitation.
▪ In a moment of weakness the President had accepted the invitation.
▪ This embarrassed her more, for what could she tell him to explain her neglect of his invitations?
▪ This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost.
▪ Well, can we go and ask him for an invitation?
▪ When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments, invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invitation

Invitation \In`vi*ta"tion\, n. [L. invitatio: cf. F. invitation. See Invite.]

  1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

  2. A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited.

  3. Allurement; enticement. [R.]

    She gives the leer of invitation.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invitation

mid-15c., from Latin invitationem (nominative invitatio) "an invitation, incitement, challenge," noun of action from past participle stem of invitare "invite, treat, entertain," originally "be pleasant toward," from in- "toward" (see in- (2)). Second element is obscure; Watkins suggests a suffixed form of root *weie- "to go after something, pursue with vigor," and a connection to English gain (see venison). Meaning "the spoken or written form in which a person is invited" is from 1610s.

Wiktionary
invitation

n. 1 The act of invite; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company. 2 A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited. 3 Allurement; enticement. 4 (lb en fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.

WordNet
invitation

  1. n. a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away"

  2. a tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble"

Wikipedia
Invitation (Altaria album)

Invitation is the first full-length studio album from the Finnish power metal band Altaria.

Invitation (Joe Sample album)

Invitation is a 1993 album by jazz pianist Joe Sample released through Warner Bros. Records. This album contains reinterpretations ( remakes) of jazz standard compositions written by artists such as Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, among others (as listed in parentheses in the track list). This is more of a jazz/ classical crossover album with orchestral arrangements by Dale Oheler.

According to the Billboard charts, in 1993, Invitation reached #1 in the "top Jazz albums" category and got to #43 in the "top R&B/Hip-Hop albums". Overall, it peaked #194 in the "Top 200 Albums".[]

Invitation

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Invitation (film)

Invitation is a 1952 melodrama starring Van Johnson and Dorothy McGuire as a happily married couple, until the wife learns a secret about her husband. The film was based on the short story "R.S.V.P." by Jerome Weidman. The theme song " of the same name" has since become a jazz standard.

Invitation (Andrew Hill album)

Invitation is the fourteenth album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill, recorded in 1974 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label. The album features five of Hill's original compositions and one jazz standard performed by a trio. The CD added one alternate take as a bonus track.

Invitation (Milt Jackson album)

Invitation is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson's Sextet featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

Invitation (EP)

"Invitation" is the debut extended play by the South Korean singer Ailee. It was released on October 16, 2012. The songs "Heaven" and "I'll Show You" were used for promote the EP.

Invitation (Carrie Akre album)

Invitation is the second solo studio album by the American artist Carrie Akre.

Invitation (Jaco Pastorius album)

Invitation was the third album by Jaco Pastorius, released in 1983 while the bassist was a member of Weather Report. This is a live album recorded in Japan, featuring his "Word of Mouth" big band. While his debut album showcased his eclectic and impressive skills on the electric bass, both Invitation and his previous album, Word of Mouth focused more on his ability to arrange for a larger band.

This album features mostly numbers written by other artists. The exceptions are "Continuum", from his debut album, and "Liberty City", from Word of Mouth, as well as "Reza", an original number bookending his version of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps".

The band's all-star cast included Randy Brecker, Bobby Mintzer, Toots Thielemans, Peter Erskine, Othello Molineaux and Don Alias.

Invitation (song)

Invitation is a song by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, originally used in the film A Life of Her Own (1950). Though it was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Score in the original film, it only became a jazz standard after being used as the theme in the 1952 film Invitation. Tony Thomas notes that it was selected for the film for its degree of poignance. It is considered to be Kaper's second best known song after " On Green Dolphin Street". Jazzstandards.com describes it as a "lush and haunting score", and notes that it is most associated with John Coltrane, who recorded it in 1958. Howard Morgen, who arranged it for guitar, writes that the "haunting" tune has "long been recognized by jazz players for its potential as an interesting mood piece" and "still sounds fresh and contemporary today".

George Shearing was responsible for arranging the song for piano, while Frank Mantooth arranged a Latin version of it. In 1963 the song was recorded by Rosemary Clooney, to a lush arrangement by Nelson Riddle, and featured as the first track on her album " Love". It has since been recorded by the vocalists Carmen McRae, Freddy Cole, Andy Bey and Patricia Barber, pianists Bill Evans, Randy Halberstadt, Steve Kuhn and Rene Rosnee, saxophonists Herb Geller, Vincent Herring, and Don Braden, trumpeter Brian Lynch, and bassist Ray Drummond, among others. David Frackenpohl arranged a version for guitar, which was published in the 2004 Mel Bay book Jazz Guitar Standards: Chord Melody Solos.

Usage examples of "invitation".

Following the performance, Estarra let Reynald talk business with the villagers while she happily accepted an invitation to splash in the warm water with a few local girls.

Smiling at her half-hearted invitation, Adonis grasped a bar in each hand and pried them apart.

Beside his classes at the gymnasium, Agassiz collected about him, by invitation, a small audience of friends and neighbors, to whom he lectured during the winter on botany, on zoology, on the philosophy of nature.

One idea was to record the thoughts of various world leaders, and large packages of Beatles albums and Apple releases were shipped off to Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi and others, together with an invitation to record a spoken-word album explaining their philosophy to a worldwide audience of young people.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

I entered the hotel, I checked my mailbox and found the invitation Angers had referred toa handsomely printed gilt-edged card which I was asked to display to the person appointed when presenting myself at a garden party at Presidential House, et cetera et cetera.

By way of a joke he said that as it was Christmas Eve he supposed I should be going to rock the infant Jesus asleep, but I answered that I was come to keep the Feast of the Maccabees with him--a reply which gained me the applause of the whole family and an invitation to stay with them.

I needed to know in Vo Astur, and the invitations from the Ducal Palace were becoming more and more insistent, so I thanked the priests for their hospitality and left town before daybreak the following morning.

Rosalind and her husband returned from the Athenaeum theater to find a small mountain of invitation cards.

Then they tried to get across the idea that an invitation to visit the Auca village would not be scorned.

Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and bacteriologist, became so preoccupied with them that he took to peering critically at every dish placed before him with a magnifying glass, a habit that presumably did not win him many repeat invitations to dinner.

A soft night light was burning below the huge, curtained baldaquin and the big, down-filled pillows were an irresistible invitation to sleep.

Sadducee, his secretary, that he wished to have it and direct him to send the invitations from List Number One and then to tell Bibby the same thing and to order the chef to serve Dinner Number Four--only to have Johannisberger Cabinet instead of Niersteiner.

Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise into an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.

When, as the new season got under way, he continued, reluctantly, to decline any and all invitations, even one so little compromising as to accept a drink and stop to chat with a boxholder during one of the duller ensembles, when drinks and chat were the order of the day, Mr.