a friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions
an early 20th-century alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia. Originally a series of loose agreements, the Triple Entente began to assume the nature of a more formal alliance as the prospect of war with the Central Powers became more likely, and formed the basis of the Allied powers in the First World War
a friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions
the understanding between Britain and France reached in 1904, forming the basis of Anglo-French cooperation in the First World War