invite

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To ask for the presence or participation of: invite friends to dinner; invite writers to a conference.
2. v. To request formally: invited us to be seated.
3. v. To welcome; encourage: invite questions from the audience.
4. v. To tend to bring on; provoke: "Divisions at home would invite dangers from abroad” ( John Jay).
5. v. To entice; tempt.
6. n. Informal An invitation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To solicit to come, attend, or do something; request the presence, company, or action of; summon because of desire, favor, or courtesy: as, to invite a friend to dinner; to invite one to dance.
2. To present allurement or incitement to; draw on or induce by temptation; solicit; incite.
3. Synonyms Convoke, Bid, etc. See call.
4. To offer invitation or enticement; attract.
5. n. An invitation.

Wiktionary

1. v. To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
2. v. To request formally.
3. v. To encourage.
4. n. An invitation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of.
2. v. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
3. v. To give occasion for.
4. v. To give invitation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. increase the likelihood of
2. v. request the participation or presence of
3. v. ask someone in a friendly way to do something
4. n. a colloquial expression for invitation
5. v. invite someone to one's house
6. v. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
7. v. express willingness to have in one's home or environs
8. v. ask to enter
9. v. have as a guest