FromMiddle Englishinvitacioun,ynvytacioun, fromLatininvītātio, reinforced byMiddle Frenchinvitation. Displaced nativeMiddle Englishlathinge fromOld Englishlaþung (see dialectalEnglishlathing).
invitation (countable anduncountable,pluralinvitations)
- The act ofinviting;solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
aninvitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend
1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:At herinvitation 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.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
We need to print off fiftyinvitations for the party.
- Allurement;enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent toattack.
- (Christianity) The briefexhortation introducing theconfession in theAnglicancommunion-office.
- (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, page113:I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slaminvitation of 46.
2011, Gerard Cohen,Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction, page71:To any otherinvitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of theinvitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and theinvitation is always in the last called suit.
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 (ja)(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:kvieti̇̀mas m
- Malay:jemputan (ms)
- Maori:pōwhiritanga
- Ngazidja Comorian:mlaliko class3/4
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:invitasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk:invitasjon m
- Old English:laþung f
- Old Norse:lǫð f
- Oromo:waamicha
- Ottoman Turkish:دعوت(daʼvet)
- 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
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document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited
Translations to be checked
Learned borrowing fromLatininvitātiō. Bysurface analysis,inviter +-ation.
invitation f (pluralinvitations)
- invitation
invitation (pluralinvitationes)
- invitation
