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invitation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun invitation has 2 senses
- invitation(n = noun.communication) Array - a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away" is a kind of letter, missive, asking, request
- invitation(n = noun.attribute) Array - a tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble" is a kind of allure, allurement, temptingness
has particulars: bidding, summons, invite
Derived forms adjective invitational1, verb invite4, verb invite7, verb invite6, verb invite8, verb invite2, verb invite5
Derived forms verb invite1, verb invite3
CIDE DICTIONARY
invitation, n. [L. invitatio: cf. F. invitation. See Invite.].
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend. [1913 Webster]
- A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited. [1913 Webster]
- Allurement; enticement. [1913 Webster]"She gives the leer of invitation." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
invitation, n. the process of inviting or fact of being invited, esp. to a social occasion.
THESAURUS
invitation
advance, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, approach, asking price, attraction, attractiveness, bait, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, bid, biddance, bidding, blandishment, bribe, cajolery, call, calling, captivation, carrot, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, draw, enchantment, encouragement, engraved invitation, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, feeler, fillip, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, incentive, incitement, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invite, lure, magnetism, offer, offering, overture, payment, percentage, persuasive, preliminary approach, presentation, proffer, profit, proposition, provocation, pull, request, reward, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snaring, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, submission, suggestion, summons, sweetener, sweetening, tantalization, temptation, tentative approach, whet, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooingROGET THESAURUS
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Offer
N offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture, proposal, proposition, motion, invitation, candidature, offering, offering, offered, in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire.Request
N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.
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