invitation
- noun
- /ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
- So in a sense, every story is an invitation to go deeper inside ourselves.
An amber light is an invitation to a conversation.
- An amber light is an invitation to a conversation.
- I think love is just the ultimate invitation to just experiencing true freedom.
- So in a sense, every story is an invitation to go deeper inside ourselves.
- It's just an, it's just an invitation to go deeper.
- To a master, you see an invitation to dance.
- So he gave you this calling to celibacy as an invitation to true godly wisdom.
- I heard a saying that music doesn't need an invitation to your soul.
- Or we can try to use this moment of despair as an invitation to an awakening.
- But we were doing this walking meditation outside, and the invitation was to see what's in motion.
- I think it's like an invitation.
- everything happens for a reason is an invitation to see beyond the inconvenience and the moment
- Not only bad feelings and also an invitation for people to trust their intuition.
- I guess that's what I would leave the audience with powerful invitation.
Examples
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The beautiful sunset was an invitation to take a leisurely stroll along the beach.
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It's much more likely to hold out that invitation to new and surprising pathways.
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Failure would be an invitation for more war, in even more difficult and dangerous circumstances.
Academic text (2007) -
An empty place in the country is an open invitation to trouble, you know.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's really an invitation to quiet and calm, to bring in care and compassion.
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As courts have long since held, the presence of a diving board is an invitation to dive.
Academic text (2004) -
It is a chance to explore, an invitation to help solve challenges.
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Or we can try to use this moment of despair as an invitation to an awakening.
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I think love is just the ultimate invitation to just experiencing true freedom.
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"Be wary of appearances... and an unexpected invitation to dinner."
Synonyms
Something that attracts people by offering a reward or advantage
Something meant to attract someone, like a compliment or an ad
Something that makes someone want to do something
Something that attracts someone by offering a reward or pleasure
An action that persuades someone to do something wrong or unwise
A quality that makes someone want something, for example a place or job
A quality that makes people want something and find it hard to refuse
Antonyms
Compounds
How Tempting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Invitation also came to mean something that 'invites' or attracts someone, because it shares the root with invite meaning 'to call in', so a tempting sign or action can be an 'invitation' to do something.