INVITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invite mean? 

• INVITE (noun)
  The noun INVITE has 1 sense:

1. a colloquial expression for invitation

  Familiarity information: INVITE used as a noun is very rare.

• INVITE (verb)
  The verb INVITE has 8 senses:

1. increase the likelihood of

2. invite someone to one's house

3. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

4. ask someone in a friendly way to do something

5. have as a guest

6. ask to enter

7. request the participation or presence of

8. express willingness to have in one's home or environs

  Familiarity information: INVITE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colloquial expression for invitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he didn't get no invite to the party

Hypernyms ("invite" is a kind of...):

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

Derivation:

invite (have as a guest)

invite (invite someone to one's house)

• INVITE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase the likelihood of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

ask for; invite

Context example:

invite criticism

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

invitation (a tempting allurement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Invite someone to one's house

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ask over; ask round; invite

Context example:

Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Verb group:

ask in; invite (ask to enter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They invite him to write the letter

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

invite (a colloquial expression for invitation)

invitatory (conveying an invitation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

invite; tempt

Context example:

the window displays tempted the shoppers

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

invitation (a tempting allurement)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Ask someone in a friendly way to do something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bid; invite

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

request (ask (a person) to do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invite"):

allure; tempt (dispose or incline or entice to)

challenge (issue a challenge to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They invite him to write the letter

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Have as a guest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

invite; pay for

Context example:

I invited them to a restaurant

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Also:

invite out (make a date)

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

invitatory (conveying an invitation)

invite (a colloquial expression for invitation)

invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Ask to enter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

ask in; invite

Context example:

We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Verb group:

ask over; ask round; invite (invite someone to one's house)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invite"):

call in (summon to enter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Request the participation or presence of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call for; invite

Context example:

The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference

Hypernyms (to "invite" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Verb group:

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

invitatory (conveying an invitation)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Express willingness to have in one's home or environs

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

invite; receive; take in

Context example:

The community warmly received the refugees

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invite"):

welcome (receive someone, as into one's house)

absorb (assimilate or take in)

see (receive as a specified guest)

assume (take up someone's soul into heaven)

induct (admit as a member)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot invite Sue

Derivation:

invitation (a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something)

 Context examples 

Katy Brown invited her to her next party on the spot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I answered by inviting him to accompany me on a general inspection of the result of my labours.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have been specially invited to be present upon the platform, and to move a vote of thanks to the lecturer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still White Fang suspected; and though the meat was proffered to him with short inviting thrusts of the hand, he refused to touch it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We should have said Pray do not invite us, at any time; and all possibility of misunderstanding would have been avoided.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the moment of parting, Edmund was invited by Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I know he was invited and encouraged, and I know he did not choose to go.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A return of apprehension was apparent when, at the top of the companion-way, Wolf Larsen invited him below.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: You have invited a fine guest!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This is due to be a sparkling weekend, so if you are invited to a party, you must accept!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)