звать — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• invite verb To ask someone to come to an event or take part in something.
• summon verb To officially call people to come together or appear somewhere.

Senses

звать is used for these senses in English:

• call (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
• call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
• invite (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
• summon (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

invite — full definition

1. verb To ask someone to come to an event or take part in something.
2. noun Informal: an invitation.

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