invitation

English

Etymology

From Middle English invitacioun, ynvytacioun, from Latin invītātio, reinforced by Middle French invitation. Displaced native Middle English lathinge from Old English laþung (see dialectal English lathing).

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:

     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), lathing (dialectal)

Derived terms

• at the invitation of
• e-invitation
• open invitation

 

Translations

act of inviting

• Ambonese Malay: not
• Arabic: دَعْوَة f (daʕwa)
• Armenian: հրավեր (hy) (hraver)
• Azerbaijani: dəvət (az), çağırış (az)
• Basque: gonbidapen, gonbit
• Belarusian: запрашэ́нне n (zaprašénnje)
• Bengali: নিমন্ত্রণ (bn) (nimontron), দাওয়াত (bn) (daōẇat)
• Bulgarian: покана (bg) f (pokana)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 邀請／邀请 (jiu¹ cing²)

  Mandarin: 邀請／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)

• Gujarati: નોતરું n (notrũ)
• 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
• Kazakh: шақыру (şaqyru)
• 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), çağrı (tr), çağrıma
• 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)
• Indonesian: undangan (id)
• Interlingua: invitation
• Japanese: 招待状 (ja) (しょうたいじょう, shōtaijō)
• Kazakh: шақыру қағаз (şaqyru qağaz)
• Malay: jemputan (ms)
• 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 (ʔiḡrāʔ)
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• 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)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invitātiōnem.

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.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.taˈtsjon/

Noun

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation