invitation

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

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, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), 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.

SynonymsEdit

• (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)

TranslationsEdit

act of inviting

• Arabic: دَعْوَة‎‎ f (daʿwa)
• Armenian: հրավեր (hy) (hraver)
• Basque: gonbidapen, gonbit
• Belarusian: запрашэ́нне n (zaprašénnje)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 邀請 (jiu¹ cing²)

  Mandarin: 邀请 (zh), 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)
• 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 (さそい, sasoi)

• Kapampangan: agkat
• Korean: 초대 (ko) (chodae)
• Latin: invito, advoco, invitatio
• Malay: jemputan
• Ngazidja Comorian: mlaliko class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invitasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: invitasjon m

• Old English: laðung f
• Old Norse: lǫð f
• 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
• Ukrainian: запро́шення n (zapróšennja)
• Vietnamese: lời mời

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

• Armenian: հրավիրատոմս (hy) (hraviratoms)
• 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)
• Polish: zaproszenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: convite (pt) m
• Russian: приглаше́ние (ru) n (priglašénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuireadh m
• Slovene: vabilo (sl) n
• Spanish: invitación (es) f
• Swedish: inbjudan (sv) c
• Vietnamese: giấy mời

allurement; enticement

• Arabic: إِغْرَاء‎‎ m (ʾiḡrāʾ)
• Finnish: kutsu (fi), houkutus (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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• 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 f

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} inbjudan (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} invitation (sv) c
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఆహ్వానం (te) (āhvānaṃ)

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• invitation

  (file)

NounEdit

invitation f (plural invitations)

1. invitation

Further readingEdit

• “invitation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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InterlinguaEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.taˈtsjon/

NounEdit

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation