Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of inviting.
- n. A spoken or written request for someone's presence or participation.
- n. An allurement, enticement, or attraction.
- n. See altar call.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of inviting; solicitation to come, attend, or take part; an intimation of desire for the presence, company, or action of the person invited: as, an invitation to a wedding; an invitation to sing.
- n. The written or spoken form with which a person is invited.
- n. A drawing on by allurement or enticement; inducement; attraction; incitement.
- n. In the Anglican communion office, the brief exhortation beginning “Ye that (or who) do truly and earnestly repent you,” and introducing the confession. It is first found in the “Order of the Communion” (1548), and in the Prayer-book of 1549, and has been continued, with gradual modifications, in the various revisions of the Prayer-book. Also called, less properly, the invitory.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.
- n. A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited.
- n. Allurement; enticement.
- n. fencing A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- n. A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited.
- n. rare Allurement; enticement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
- n. a tempting allurement
Examples
“But it is no occasion for vanity when one recalls the invitation from the farmer to his son's school-teacher.”
“I've been keeping track of what I call my invitation stream for a few weeks now and am impressed with just how many social networks there are.”
“I've been keeping track of what I call my invitation stream for a few weeks now and am impressed with just how many social networks there are. ...”
“I received an invitation from the local chapter of my coaching institute to hear from a “Peace Pilgrim”, a young man who has dedicated his life to traveling from community to community (wherever he is invited to go) to learn and teach principles of peace and love.”
“But this Friday, Oct. 8 at 5: 45, I am thrilled to find myself waiting inside the doors of Central Synagogue, thanks to a personal invitation from the senior rabbi, Peter Rubinstein.”
The Huffington Post: Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship
“Cuccinelli political director Noah Wall said the attorney general accepted the invitation from the group, one of dozens that have sprung up devoted to discussions of the constitution and broadly associated with the tea party movement.”
The Washington Post: Cuccinelli to be featured speaker for constitution group
“Michaele's earnest rooting through the car in search of a (non-existent) paper invitation is a bizarre sight for those who have followed this story closely.”
“Three weeks after her husband's death, in answer to a cryptic invitation from a man she barely knew many years ago, she packs her bags and goes to him.”
The Huffington Post: Dora Levy Mossanen: Master of Dark Tales
“Jonathan Freedland, writing in The Guardian, said "Obama deployed the one weapon no Israeli or Palestinian leader can resist: a direct invitation from the American president.”
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