INVITATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INVITATION?

Need another word that means the same as “invitation”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “invitation” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Invitation” are: request, call, bidding, summons, encouragement, provocation, temptation, lure, magnet, bait, enticement, attraction, draw, pull, allure

Invitation as a Noun

Definitions of "Invitation" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “invitation” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something.
• A written or verbal request inviting someone to go somewhere or to do something.
• A situation or action that tempts someone to do something or makes a particular outcome likely.
• A tempting allurement.
• The action of inviting someone to go somewhere or to do something.

Synonyms of "Invitation" as a noun (15 Words)

allure	The quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating. People for whom gold holds no allure.
attraction	The influence exerted by one word on another which causes it to change to an incorrect form, e.g. the wages of sin is (for are) death. This reform has many attractions for those on the left.
bait	Anything that serves as an enticement. Many potential buyers are reluctant to take the bait.
bidding	The prices offered during the course of bidding for something. Other companies in the bidding include General Electric.
call	A direction in a square dance given by the caller. He heard the phone ringing but didn t want to take the call.
draw	The act of drawing or hauling something. She took a long draw on her cigarette.
encouragement	The feeling of being encouraged. Incentives and encouragement to play sports.
enticement	Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward. His enticements were shameless.
lure	Something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed. The film industry always has been a glamorous lure for young girls.
magnet	A piece of iron or other material which has its component atoms so ordered that the material exhibits properties of magnetism such as attracting other iron containing objects or aligning itself in an external magnetic field. The beautiful stretch of white sand is a magnet for sun worshippers.
provocation	Action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately. You should remain calm and not respond to provocation.
pull	A handle to hold while pulling. He unscrewed the cap from the flask and took another pull.
request	A tune or song played on a radio programme typically accompanied by a personal message in response to a listener s request. To have our ideas taken seriously is surely a reasonable request.
summons	An authoritative or urgent call to someone to be present or to do something. They might receive a summons to fly to France next day.
temptation	The tempting of Jesus by the Devil (see Matt. 4). The temptations of life in London.

Usage Examples of "Invitation" as a noun

• She threw the invitation away.
• A wedding invitation.
• A club with membership by invitation only.
• An invitation to lunch.
• A herb garden where guests can only go at the invitation of the chef.
• She was an invitation to trouble.
• Tactics like those of the colonel would have been an invitation to disaster.

Associations of "Invitation" (30 Words)

accost	Speak to someone. Reporters accosted him in the street.
appeal	Entreaty. The idea of a vacation appeals to me.
asking	The verbal act of requesting.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. Beg the question.
beseech	Ask for or request earnestly. They beseeched him to stay.
birthday	The anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and the giving of gifts. His twenty ninth birthday.
cadge	Ask for and get free; be a parasite. He cadged fivers off old school friends.
conjure	Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together. A special tune that conjures up a particular time and place.
desperately	In a way that shows despair. The soil desperately needed potash.
dinner	A party of people assembled to have dinner together. Eric sits next to Beth at the dinner table.
entreat	Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. A message had been sent entreating aid for the Navahos.
entreaty	Earnest or urgent request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
exhortation	An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something. No amount of exhortation had any effect.
implore	Call upon in supplication; entreat. I implore mercy.
importune	Harass (someone) persistently for or to do something. Reporters importuned him with pointed questions.
invite	Invite someone to one s house. I invited them to a restaurant.
paging	Calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system. The public address system in the hospital was used for paging.
perforce	By necessity; by force of circumstance. Amateurs perforce have to settle for less expensive solutions.
petition	Reverent petition to a deity. The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after one year of marriage.
plea	A formal statement by or on behalf of a defendant or prisoner, stating guilt or innocence in response to a charge, offering an allegation of fact, or claiming that a point of law should apply. Her plea of a headache was not entirely false.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. The youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl.
pray	Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. The whole family are praying for Michael.
request	A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. The chairman requested that the reports be considered.
solicit	Make a solicitation or entreaty for something request urgently or persistently. Prostitutes solicit openly on the streets.
solicitation	The act of accosting someone and offering one’s or someone else’s services as a prostitute. People objected to receiving telephone solicitations.
suppliant	Humbly entreating. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness.
supplicant	One praying humbly for something. Supplicants prostrate themselves on the floor.
supplicate	Ask humbly (for something. Supplicate God s blessing.
wedding	A party of people at a wedding.
woo	Try to gain the love of (someone), especially with a view to marriage. China is wooing Russia.