Invited Invite ɪnˈvaɪt I Verb Party Kindly Lunch

• have you been invited to their party?
• she very kindly invited me to lunch.
• i'd have liked to have gone but i wasn't invited.
• my mother invited a few friends that she hadn't seen for 20 years.

invite

Verb Forms

1. to ask somebody to come to a social event
• Have you been invited to their party?
• She very kindly invited me to lunch.
• I'd have liked to have gone but I wasn't invited.
• My mother invited a few friends that she hadn't seen for 20 years.
• Let's invite them all for dinner.
• They have invited me to go to Paris with them.
2. to ask somebody formally to go somewhere or do something; to make a formal or polite request for something
• The bishop invited representatives from all the parishes in the diocese.
• Successful candidates will be invited for interview next week.
• Clarke was not invited to the meeting.
• The ministry had invited tenders for the demolition of the buildings.
• He invited questions from the audience.
• Readers are invited to email their comments to us.
• He was invited to attend the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
• Audience members are invited to participate in the discussion.
• In 1956 she was invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a soloist.

Extra Examples

• You are cordially invited to attend the annual parish meeting.
• If he has any complaints to make, I invite him to do so.
3. to make something, especially something bad or unpleasant, likely to happen
• SYNONYM ask for
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ask_1
• Such comments are just inviting trouble.
• Such harsh punishments invited prisoners to respond with defiance.

Extra Examples

• The film seems to invite comparison with ‘The Italian Job’.
• The hype and fervour surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent.: from Old French inviter, or from Latin invitare.