invitation

Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.vɪˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ɪn.vɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     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.

• (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/

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invitation f (plural invitations)

1. invitation

• inviter

• “invitation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.taˈtsjon/

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation