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Beckon vs Invite - What's the difference?

beckon | invite |

As verbs the difference between beckon and invite

is that beckon is (ambitransitive) to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer while invite is .

As a noun beckon

is a sign made without words; a beck.

beckon

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
  • * Dryden
    • His distant friends, he beckons near.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It beckons you to go away with it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sign made without words; a beck.
  • * Bolingbroke
    • At the first beckon .

    invite

    English

    Verb

  • To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
    • We invited our friends round for dinner.
  • To request formally.
    • I invite you all to be seated.
  • To encourage.
    • I always invite criticism of my definitions.
    Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
  • * 1902 , Roosevelt,
    • The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
  • To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  • * Milton
    • to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
  • * Dryden
    • shady groves, that easy sleep invite
  • * Cowper
    • There no delusive hope invites despair.

    Synonyms

    * (ask for the presence or participation of) ask out * (request formally) ask, beseech, entreat, request * (encourage) ask for, encourage, provoke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An invitation.