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The phrase "was a dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or occasion that involved a dinner in the past. Example: "Last Saturday, there was a dinner at my friend's house to celebrate her birthday."
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And if it was a dinner date?
It was a dinner for the memory.
The occasion was a dinner party.
My mum was a dinner lady, my dad a bookie.
Now there was a dinner at the Rainbow Room.
"There was a dinner for one of their vice-premiers," he said.
There was a dinner preceding it to which the writer was not invited.
A typical activity was a dinner in 1939 followed by a talk, "Trout Fishing Under Difficulties".
There was a dinner in his honor at the president's residence.
THE setting was a dinner party on the Upper West Side.
Later that evening there was a dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel.
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