Word Finder - invite

definition

To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

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We invited our friends round for dinner.

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To request formally.

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I invite you all to be seated.

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To encourage.

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I always invite criticism of my definitions.

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

Did she invite you?

I was wondering if I should invite him to stay at our place.

Good, maybe you'll invite me again.

Did you invite him here?

It is the custom of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to invite competitions at its annual shows in specified classes of implements, and an enumeration of these will indicate the character of the appliances which were thus brought into prominence in the latter years of the 19th and the early years of the 10th century.

Yet he had found the time to invite her on this ride.

I invite them in for tea then steal their souls while they talk about the weather.

On the 30th of November the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed a Turkish squadron in the harbour of Sinope; on the 3rd of January the combined French and British fleets entered the Black Sea, commissioned to " invite " the Russians to return to their harbours.

Maybe I should invite Lori over here and we could both talk to her.

Aren't you going to invite me in?

In his letters he spoke of her always as Mrs Armistead, and some of his friends - Mr Coke of Holkham, afterwards Lord Leicester, with whom he stayed every year, being one of them - would not invite her to their houses.

They were disappointed when Adrienne didn't invite Michael... or anyone else, for that matter.

How did he get an invite here?

We invite them for dinner, but for the most part, they just do patrols and bring us supplies.

But, in fact, it failed; and the friction engendered between the First Lord and the First Sea Lord was one of the causes which drove Mr. Asquith to invite the Unionists in May to join in a Coalition Government.

Prussia, emboldened by Russia's difficulties, now went so far as to invite Poland also to forsake the Russian alliance, and placed an army corps of 40,000 men at her disposal.

Even Alex shook his hand, though he didn't invite him to come back.

You invite that big-boobed blonde up?

I don't do reruns, so as long as you don't invite them over, I don't care.

Ants invite one another to work, or ask for food from one another, by means of pats with the feelers; and they respond to the solicitations of their guest-beetles or mites, who ask for food by patting the ants with their feet.

All political authority was in the hands of turbulent nobles who quarrelled among themselves, who were always inclined to submit the questions at issue to the arbitrament of arms, and who did not scruple to invite foreign powers to intervene on their behalf.

If a rich woman sits down with them at table, and they see a poor woman, they shall invite her also to eat with them, and not put her to shame because of the rich one."

This view was that of the rump of the chamber still sitting at the Palais Bourbon, and a deputation headed by Thiers and Laffitte waited upon the duke to invite him to place himself at the head of affairs.

Lundy was then publishing in Baltimore a small monthly paper, entitled The Genius of Universal Emancipation, and he resolved to go to Bennington and invite Garrison to join him in the editorship. With this object in view he walked from Boston to Bennington, through the frost and snow of a New England winter, a distance of 125 m.

She was the victor of Vegas to the tune of three hundred dollars, and called to invite Fred out to spend the spoils.

No party is formed, no programme is announced, no doctrine is formulated; without assuming the title of Messiah, He offers Himself as the centre of expectation, and seems to invite an unlimited confidence in His person.

It seemed unlikely that Señor Medena would invite Tessa.

But you didn't invite me.

Cooper was one of the twelve commissioners who went to Charles at Breda to invite him to return.

To refuse this claim would have meant the indefinite prolongation of the crisis; to concede it would have been to invite the peasantry of the whole empire to put forth similar demands on pain of a general rising.

After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to dinner all who came "to congratulate."

I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my affair.

He came to town and wanted to invite me to dinner--I gave him a pretty dinner!...

If you want to go into town for pizza, please don't feel obligated to invite me.

The White God didn't invite the Original Vamp into his home out of a sense of kindness or moral obligation.

P the effect " that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the co-operation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong "; and shortly afterwards two companies were formed for the revision of the Authorized Version of the Old and New Testaments.

Nicholas' Day and the prince's name day--all Moscow came to the prince's front door but he gave orders to admit no one and to invite to dinner only a small number, a list of whom he gave to Princess Mary.

You didn't invite me out here to listen to my maudlin rambling.

Was that why he felt it necessary to invite himself?

The plan of Rasselas might, however, have seemed to invite severe criticism.

It seemed unlikely that Señor Medena would invite Tessa.

To invite you guys to the wedding, all of you, even Martha!

No, that would invite an immediate search.

She was tempted to invite him in, and immediately knew that would be a dangerous move.

Why don't you invite him to the party tomorrow?

He used to invite the contadini who had served Cosimo to a banquet on the day of Saints Cosimo and Damiano (the patron saints of the Medici), and entertained them with music and singing.

Frederick, now king of Prussia, made not a few efforts to get Voltaire away from Madame du Chatelet, but unsuccessfully, and the king earned the lady's cordial hatred by persistently refusing or omitting to invite her.

In 1881 Mr Blaine, then U.S. secretary of state, addressed an instruction to the ministers of the United States of America accredited to the various Central and South American nations, directing them to invite the governments of these countries to participate in a congress, to be held at Washington in 1882, " for the purpose of considering and discussing the methods of preventing war between the nations of America."

Before the break-up of the conference of Troppau, it had been decided to adjourn it till the following January, and to invite the attendance of the king of Naples, Laibach being chosen as the place of meeting.

He was one of the deputation sent to invite King Otho to accept the crown of Greece, and was made rear-admiral and then viceadmiral by him.