Say what you will, he won't accept your invitation.
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Invitation
//ɪn.vɪˈteɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "invitation" (91 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
Related word relations
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More general
7 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescauses desire
2 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
119 translations across 57 languages.
Ambonese Malay
2 entries- not noun (act of inviting)
- not noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πρόσκλησις noun (act of inviting)
Arabic
4 entries- إِغْرَاء noun (allurement; enticement)
- دَعْوَة noun (act of inviting)
- دَعْوَة noun (act of inviting)
- عزيمة noun (act of inviting)
Armenian
2 entries- հրավեր noun (act of inviting)
- հրավիրատոմս noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- dəvət noun (act of inviting)
- dəvət noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- dəvətnamə noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- çağırış noun (act of inviting)
Basque
2 entries- gonbidapen noun (act of inviting)
- gonbit noun (act of inviting)
Belarusian
1 entries- запрашэ́нне noun (act of inviting)
Bengali
2 entries- দাওয়াত noun (act of inviting)
- নিমন্ত্রণ noun (act of inviting)
Bulgarian
3 entries- покана noun (act of inviting)
- покана noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- съблазън noun (allurement; enticement)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 邀請 /邀请 noun (act of inviting)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吸引 noun (allurement; enticement)
- 引誘 /引诱 noun (allurement; enticement)
- 請帖 /请帖 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- 請柬 /请柬 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Czech
1 entries- pozvání noun (act of inviting)
Danish
2 entries- indbydelse noun (act of inviting)
- invitation noun (act of inviting)
Dutch
2 entries- uitnodiging noun (act of inviting)
- uitnodiging noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Finnish
4 entries- houkutus noun (allurement; enticement)
- kutsu noun (act of inviting)
- kutsu noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- kutsu noun (allurement; enticement)
French
2 entries- invitation noun (act of inviting)
- invitation noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
German
4 entries- Einladen noun (act of inviting)
- Einladung noun (act of inviting)
- Einladung noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- Einladung noun (fencing: line left open)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌰𐌸𐍉𐌽𐍃 noun (act of inviting)
Greek
4 entries- δελεασμός noun (allurement; enticement)
- κάλεσμα noun (act of inviting)
- πρόσκληση noun (act of inviting)
- πρόσκληση noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Gujarati
1 entries- નોતરું noun (act of inviting)
Hebrew
2 entries- הַזְמָנָה noun (act of inviting)
- הַזְמָנָה noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Hindi
1 entries- निमंत्रण noun (act of inviting)
Hungarian
3 entries- felhívás noun (allurement; enticement)
- meghívás noun (act of inviting)
- meghívó noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Indonesian
1 entries- undangan noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Interlingua
1 entries- invitation noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Italian
1 entries- invito noun (act of inviting)
Japanese
4 entries- 招き noun (act of inviting)
- 招待 noun (act of inviting)
- 招待状 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- 誘い noun (act of inviting)
Kapampangan
1 entries- agkat noun (act of inviting)
Kazakh
2 entries- шақыру noun (act of inviting)
- шақыру қағаз noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Korean
4 entries- 청첩 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- 청첩장 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- 초대 noun (act of inviting)
- 초대장 noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Latin
1 entries- invītātiō noun (act of inviting)
Laz
1 entries- ჭანდა noun (act of inviting)
Levantine Arabic
2 entries- دَعْوَة noun (act of inviting)
- عزيمة noun (act of inviting)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kvieti̇̀mas noun (act of inviting)
Malay
2 entries- jemputan noun (act of inviting)
- jemputan noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Māori
2 entries- pōwhiri noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- pōwhiritanga noun (act of inviting)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mlaliko noun (act of inviting)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- invitasjon noun (act of inviting)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- invitasjon noun (act of inviting)
Old English
1 entries- laþung noun (act of inviting)
Old Norse
1 entries- lǫð noun (act of inviting)
Oromo
1 entries- waamicha noun (act of inviting)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دعوت noun (act of inviting)
Polish
2 entries- zaproszenie noun (act of inviting)
- zaproszenie noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Portuguese
3 entries- convite noun (act of inviting)
- convite noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- invitação noun (act of inviting)
Russian
4 entries- завлека́ние noun (allurement; enticement)
- зама́нивание noun (allurement; enticement)
- приглаше́ние noun (act of inviting)
- приглаше́ние noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- cuireadh noun (act of inviting)
- cuireadh noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- tàladh noun (allurement; enticement)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- poziv noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- pozivnica noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Slovene
1 entries- vabilo noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Spanish
2 entries- invitación noun (act of inviting)
- invitación noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
Swedish
2 entries- inbjudan noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- inbjudning noun (act of inviting)
Tagalog
1 entries- aya noun (act of inviting)
Tamil
2 entries- அழைப்பிதழ் noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- அழைப்பு noun (act of inviting)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kākalñe noun (act of inviting)
Turkish
4 entries- davet noun (act of inviting)
- davetiye noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- çağrı noun (act of inviting)
- çağrıma noun (act of inviting)
Ukrainian
1 entries- запро́шення noun (act of inviting)
Vietnamese
2 entries- giấy mời noun (document or spoken words conveying the message by which one is invited)
- lời mời noun (act of inviting)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I am glad to accept your invitation.
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I will be very happy to accept your invitation.
Source: tatoeba (20668)
Robert was so busy he had to turn down an invitation to play golf.
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Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.