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invite ( Verb)
UK/US /ɪnˈvaɪt/
Present
invite
Ing
inviting
He/She/It
invites
Past Simple
invited
Past Participle
invited
1-
A1
to invite someone to a conversable gathering
-> She didn't invite us to her birthday party.
-> It is a big disappoinment that she didn't invite me.
-> He was invited to their wedding.
Synonym
call
2-
C1
to submit an official or courteous demand for something; to offer someone to go somewhere or perform something
-> Nehru was invited to form the Interim Government in İndia in 1946.
-> Putin invited Turkish Republic President Erdoğan to Russia.
-> The governments of the British Empire and France invited Turkey to examine the arrangements together.
Synonym
call
3-
C2
to increase the likelihood of anything, particularly something undesirable or unattractive, occurring
-> Teacher's unfair grading invited students to report her to the deanery.
-> The harsh weather conditions invited people to stay at home.
-> The difficulty of his college invited him to drop out of.
Synonym
tempt
Word Families
'invite' Contained Stories
While i was a student at university, we invited a young man to do our traditional talks. Despite his young age, he was a gardener and a teacher at a pre-school course at the same time. He was very good at gardening and was very prepared for all of our questions. In the middle of our talk, he told that he was fishing in his spare time. It surprised us because he was living a preferable life and he was in touch with every spot of nature. Apart from fishing and gardening, he was building furniture from old broken trees. He showed different photos from his garden. We imagined a life like this and felt a little bit jealous actually.