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{
"term": "invite",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "invite",
"heSheIt": "invites"
},
"pastSimple": "invited",
"pastParticiple": "invited",
"ingForm": "inviting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to ask somebody to come to a social event",
"sensetop": "invite somebody to somethinginvite somebodyinvite somebody for somethinginvite somebody to do something",
"labels": "(informal or North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Have you been invited to their party?",
"contextForm": "invite somebody to something"
},
{
"text": "She very kindly invited me to lunch."
},
{
"text": "I'd have liked to have gone but I wasn't invited.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody"
},
{
"text": "My mother invited a few friends that she hadn't seen for 20 years."
},
{
"text": "Let's invite them all for dinner.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody for something"
},
{
"text": "They have invited me to go to Paris with them.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody to do something"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["formally", "officially", "cordially"],
"preposition": ["into", "for", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to ask somebody formally to go somewhere or do something; to make a formal or polite request for something",
"sensetop": "invite somebodyinvite somebody for somethinginvite somebody to somethinginvite somethinginvite something from somebodyinvite somebody to do something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The bishop invited representatives from all the parishes in the diocese.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody"
},
{
"text": "Successful candidates will be invited for interview next week.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody for something"
},
{
"text": "Clarke was not invited to the meeting.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody to something"
},
{
"text": "The ministry had invited tenders for the demolition of the buildings.",
"contextForm": "invite something"
},
{
"text": "He invited questions from the audience.",
"contextForm": "invite something from somebody"
},
{
"text": "**Readers are invited** to email their comments to us.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "He was **invited to attend** the Paris Peace Conference in 1919."
},
{
"text": "Audience members are **invited to participate** in the discussion."
},
{
"text": "In 1956 she was **invited to join** the Bolshoi Ballet as a soloist."
},
{
"text": "You are cordially invited to attend the annual parish meeting."
},
{
"text": "If he has any complaints to make, I invite him to do so."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["formally", "officially", "cordially"],
"preposition": ["into", "for", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to make something, especially something bad or unpleasant, likely to happen",
"sensetop": "invite somethinginvite somebody/something to do something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Such comments are just inviting trouble.",
"contextForm": "invite something"
},
{
"text": "Such harsh punishments invited prisoners to respond with defiance.",
"contextForm": "invite somebody/something to do something"
},
{
"text": "The film seems to invite comparison with ‘The Italian Job’."
},
{
"text": "The hype and fervour surrounding the event positively invited scepticism."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["positively", "practically"],
"verb + invite": ["seem to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪt/",
"audio": "in/invite/invite__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪts/",
"audio": "in/invite/invites__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "in/invite/invited__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/invite/inviting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪt/",
"audio": "in/invite/invite__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪts/",
"audio": "in/invite/invites__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/",
"audio": "in/invite/invited__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/invite/inviting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Old French inviter, or from Latin invitare."
}