Triple Entente

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.

Triple Entente

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

Example Sentences

It’ll be hard to know whether to qualify for it or sign a triple entente in the hope it’ll see us through the group stage.

From The Guardian

As the powers sought to head off these challenges, they formed into the triple entente of Britain, Russia and France and the triple alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

From Economist

Yet, those who see a conspiracy to plunder Arab lands ignore how the Triple Entente bumbled its way into this situation in the first place.

From Forbes

Rothschild, Alfred, on the Triple Entente, 305, 306.

From Project Gutenberg

Triple Entente, development of, 279; 305, 306.

From Project Gutenberg