invitation

invitation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio. Displaced native Old English laþung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.vɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɪn.vɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.

   an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.

   We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.

3. Allurement; enticement.
4. (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
5. (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
6. (bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
   • 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)

     I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.

   • 2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction (page 71)

     To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.

Synonyms

• (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)

Translations

act of inviting

Ambonese Malay: not Arabic: دَعْوَة‎ f (daʿwa) Armenian: հրավեր (hy) (hraver) Azerbaijani: dəvət (az), çağırış (az) Basque: gonbidapen, gonbit Belarusian: запрашэ́нне n (zaprašénnje) Bulgarian: покана (bg) f (pokana) Chinese: Cantonese: 邀請 (jiu1 cing2) Mandarin: 邀请 (zh) (yāoqǐng) Czech: pozvání (cs) n Dutch: uitnodiging (nl) f Finnish: kutsu (fi), kutsuminen (fi) French: invitation (fr) f German: Einladung (de) f, Einladen n Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌸𐍉𐌽𐍃 f (laþōns) Greek: πρόσκληση (el) f (prósklisi), κάλεσμα (el) n (kálesma) Ancient: πρόσκλησις f (prósklēsis) Hebrew: הזמנה‎ f (hazmana) Hindi: निमंत्रण (hi) (nimantraṇ) Hungarian: meghívás (hu) Italian: invito (it) m Japanese: 招待 (ja) (しょうたい, shōtai), 招き (まねき, maneki), 誘い (ja) (さそい, sasoi) Kapampangan: agkat Korean: 초대 (ko) (chodae) Latin: invītātiō f Laz: ჭანდა (ç̌anda) Lithuanian: kvietimas m Malay: jemputan (ms) Maori: pōwhiritanga Ngazidja Comorian: mlaliko class 3/4 Norwegian: Bokmål: invitasjon (no) m Nynorsk: invitasjon m Old English: laþung f Old Norse: lǫð f Oromo: waamicha Polish: zaproszenie (pl) n Portuguese: convite (pt) m, invitação (pt) f Russian: приглаше́ние (ru) n (priglašénije) Scottish Gaelic: cuireadh m Spanish: invitación (es) f Swedish: inbjudning (sv) c Tagalog: aya Tocharian B: kākalñe Turkish: davet (tr) Ukrainian: запро́шення n (zapróšennja) Vietnamese: lời mời

document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited

Ambonese Malay: not Armenian: հրավիրատոմս (hy) (hraviratoms) Azerbaijani: dəvət (az), dəvətnamə, çağırış (az) Bulgarian: покана (bg) f (pokana) Chinese: Mandarin: 柬帖 (jiǎntiě), 帖子 (zh) (tiězi) Dutch: uitnodiging (nl) f Finnish: kutsu (fi) French: invitation (fr) f German: Einladung (de) f Greek: πρόσκληση (el) f (prósklisi) Hebrew: הזמנה‎ f (hazmana) Hungarian: meghívó (hu) Interlingua: invitation Japanese: 招待状 (しょうたいじょう, shōtaijō) Maori: pōwhiri Polish: zaproszenie (pl) n Portuguese: convite (pt) m Russian: приглаше́ние (ru) n (priglašénije) Scottish Gaelic: cuireadh m Serbo-Croatian: poziv (sh) m, pozivnica (sh) (card) Slovene: vabilo (sl) n Spanish: invitación (es) f Swedish: inbjudan (sv) c Turkish: davetiye (tr) Vietnamese: giấy mời

allurement; enticement

Arabic: إِغْرَاء‎ m (ʾiḡrāʾ) Bulgarian: съблазън (bg) f (sǎblazǎn) Finnish: kutsu (fi), houkutus (fi), viehätys (fi) Greek: δελεασμός (el) m (deleasmós) Hungarian: felhívás (hu) Russian: приглаше́ние (ru) n (priglašénije), зама́нивание (ru) n (zamánivanije), завлека́ние (ru) n (zavlekánije) Scottish Gaelic: tàladh m

fencing: line left open

German: Einladung (de) f

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Northern Kurdish: (please verify) dawet (ku) f, (please verify) daxwazname (ku) f Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) uzov, (please verify) póziv (sh) m, (please verify) по́зив m, (please verify) pózīvnica (sh) f, (please verify) по́зӣвница (sh) f Swedish: (please verify) inbjudan (sv) c, (please verify) invitation (sv) c Telugu: (please verify) ఆహ్వానం (te) (āhvānaṁ)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• invitation

  (file)

Noun

invitation f (plural invitations)

1. invitation

Related terms

• inviter

Further reading

• “invitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.taˈtsjon/

Noun

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation