invite.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
Meaning & usage
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
We invited our friends round for dinner.
To request formally.
I invite you all to be seated.
I always invite criticism of my essays.
To encourage.
Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native English lathe.
An invitation.
Where this word comes from
From the verb invite.
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