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An entente is a friendly understanding between countries. It is warmer than “we are not at war,” but it is not as tight as an alliance, where countries promise to fight for each other. The word is at home in history and diplomacy, not in everyday chat. The best-known example is the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France in 1904, and later the Triple Entente of Britain, France, and Russia before the First World War. You would not usually say two have an entente; keep it for states and formal ties. It still feels a little French when you say it.
協約、諒解（國家之間的友好默契；比「聯盟」鬆，不是軍事同盟那麼緊）
組成Borrowed as-is from French entente, “understanding.” It is a doublet of English intent: same old Latin root, two different English shapes.
同家族的字
- intentdoublet — French kept entente for “understanding”; English also has intent from the same older root
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ententenoun/ɒ̃ˈtɒ̃t/
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governmentpoliticsAn informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。