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invite

verb
/ɪnˈvaɪt//ˈɪnvaɪt/

Etymology

From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native Old English laþian.

  1. derived from invītō
  2. borrowed from inviter

Definitions

  1. To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

    • We invited our friends round for dinner.

  2. To request formally.

    • I invite you all to be seated.
    • I always invite criticism of my essays.

  3. To encourage.

    • Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
    • The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
    • "Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados. "We are out of the running—human rivalry ceases to exist. […]"
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To allure

      To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

      • to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
      • shady groves, that easy sleep invite
      • There no delusive hope invites despair.

    2. An invitation.

The neighborhood

Derived

disinvite, e-invite, e-vite, invitable, invited to the cookout, invitement, invitro, reinvite, uninvite

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at invite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01invite02formally03accordance04agreement05follow06pursue07capture08attraction09attracted10attract

A definitional loop anchored at invite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at invite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA