invitation
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)
- 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.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
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.- 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.
- 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)
SynonymsEdit
- (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)
TranslationsEdit
act of inviting
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document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited
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allurement; enticement
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
invitation f (plural invitations)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “invitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
InterlinguaEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
invitation (plural invitationes)