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

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

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The Triple Entente, as it was called, did not bind Britain to fight with France and Russia.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

In 1914 many nations refused to stake their political fate in the quarrel between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, however, does not prevent Servia as well as the Triple Entente from insisting on giving us as little as possible, and then only after the Serbs have taken Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various