Triple Entente

American  

noun

1. an informal understanding among Great Britain, France, and Russia based on a Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), an Anglo-French entente (1904), and an Anglo-Russian entente (1907). It was considered a counterbalance to the Triple Alliance but was terminated when the Bolsheviks came into control in Russia in 1917.

2. the member nations of this entente.

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Triple Entente British  

noun

1. the understanding between Britain, France, and Russia that developed between 1894 and 1907 and counterbalanced the Triple Alliance of 1882. The Entente became a formal alliance on the outbreak of World War I and was ended by the Russian Revolution in 1917

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Example Sentences

In addition, the former members of the Triple Entente themselves owed enormous sums to the United States for the loans they had received during the war, amounting to approximately $10 billion.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Smaller states like Italy and Portugal later joined the Triple Entente, as did, eventually, the United States.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Among the largest European powers, the Triple Entente included an alliance of France, Great Britain, and Russia.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

It was no mere spontaneous decision that prompted M. Paul Hymans, Belgium's astute and shrewd Foreign Minister, to propose last week a new Triple Entente* with Belgium taking Russia's place.**

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether the Triple Entente was content with blandishments alone history will show later.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various