invitation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=vi=ta=tion
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

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, wooing

ROGET THESAURUS

invitation

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.