entente

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French entente (“understanding”). Doublet of intent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒ̃ˈtɒ̃t/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑnˈtɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt
• Hyphenation: en‧tente

Noun

entente (plural ententes)

1. (politics) An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

Derived terms

• double entente
• entente cordiale

Translations

alliance between states

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 君子協定 / 君子协定 (jūnzǐ xiédìng)

• Czech: dohoda (cs) f, porozumění (cs) n
• Finnish: liittouma (fi)
• Hungarian: megegyezés (hu), antant (hu)
• Indonesian: entente (id)
• Portuguese: entente
• Romanian: antantă (ro) f
• Russian: соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), Анта́нта (ru) f (Antánta) (historical, Triple Entente)
• Serbo-Croatian: antanta (sh) f
• Thai: ความตกลง (th) (kwaam-dtòk-long)

See also

• détente

Further reading

• entente on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From the verb entendre, from Middle French entendre and Old French entendre, from Latin intendere (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”). Alternatively, from Latin intenta; perhaps through a substantivized Vulgar Latin past participle *intendita, as a variant of intenta (cf. intenditus). See also tente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɑ̃t/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Noun

entente f (plural ententes)

1. accord; agreement
2. interpretation, meaning

Derived terms

• entente de confidentialité
• entente de non-divulgation
• terrain d'entente

Descendants

• → English: entente
• → Turkish: antant

Further reading

• “entente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• nénette

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch entente, from French entente (“understanding”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛnˈtɛntə]
• Hyphenation: èn‧tèn‧tê

Noun

èntèntê (plural entente-entente)

1. (international relations) entente, an informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states

Further reading

• “entente”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French entente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈtente/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪ẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: en‧ten‧te

Noun

entente f (plural ententes)

1. entente

Further reading

• “entente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025