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invitation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n.v??te?.??n/, /?n.v??te?.?n?/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- 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.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- (bridge) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
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.- 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)
- I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.
- 2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction (page 71)
- To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.
- 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)
Synonyms
- (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.vi.ta.sj??/
Noun
invitation f (plural invitations)
- invitation
Related terms
- inviter
Further reading
- “invitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.vi.ta?tsjon/
Noun
invitation (plural invitationes)
- invitation
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disinvite
English
Etymology
dis- +? invite
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?s?n?va?t/
Verb
disinvite (third-person singular simple present disinvites, present participle disinviting, simple past and past participle disinvited)
- (transitive) To cancel an invitation to (someone).
Usage notes
- The prefix dis- gives a more negative implication to disinvite than the neutral implication un- gives to uninvite. One might "univite" guests because one had more than an anticipated number of acceptances. One might "disinvite" someone for a reason specific to the person.
Synonyms
- (to cancel an invitation): uninvite
Translations
References
- uninvite vs. disinvite at Merriam-Webster Online
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