invitation à dîner meaning in English

a dinner date

i calculated that my question would be taken and i refused an invitation to dinner.
j'ai calculé que ma question serait traitée et j'ai refusé une invitation à dîner.
Blamey was annoyed by the media campaign run against him by William Dunstan and Keith Murdoch of The Herald and Weekly Times newspaper group, but success in New Guinea led to a change of heart at the newspaper, and Blamey even accepted a dinner invitation from Murdoch in 1944.
Blamey a été agacé par la campagne médiatique dirigée contre lui par William Dunstan et Keith Murdoch, du Herald and Weekly Times, mais les succès en Nouvelle-Guinée ont conduit à un changement de position du journal, et Blamey a même accepté une invitation à dîner avec Murdoch en 1944.
The revolution of July 1830 threatened him with the loss of all his honours; but this disgrace to the government of Louis-Philippe was adroitly averted by François Jean Dominique Arago, who, while his "revocation" was being plotted by the council of ministers, procured him an invitation to dine at the Palais-Royal, where he was openly and effusively received by the citizen king, who "remembered" him.
Après la révolution de 1830, il faillit perdre cet honneur mais, grâce à François Arago, il obtint une invitation à dîner au Palais-Royal où il fut chaleureusement accueilli par le roi citoyen qui se « souvenait » de lui.