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

The Triple Entente consisted of which three countries?

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Once the war began, the Triple Entente of Russia, France, and Britain faced the Central Powers of Germany and Austria.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

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

In offensive action the Triple Alliance breaks; while the Triple Entente becomes, for defense, nine nations instead of three.

From The Audacious War by Barron, Clarence W. (Clarence Walker)