different between agreement vs entente

English

Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.

Morphologically agree +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?m?nt/

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

   • Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

Synonyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Coordinate terms

• (linguistics, grammar): rection

Hyponyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• consent, approval

See also

• consensus
• agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English agreement.

Noun

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• magnerete
• mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.t??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?t?nt/

Noun

entente (plural ententes)

1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

Translations

See also

• détente
• entente cordiale

French

Etymology

From the verb entendre, or 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): /??.t??t/

Noun

entente f (plural ententes)

1. accord; agreement
2. interpretation, meaning

Derived terms

• terrain d'entente

Descendants

• ? English: entente
• ? Turkish: antant

Further reading

• “entente” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• nénette

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n?t?nt?]
• Hyphenation: èn?tèn?tê

Noun

entente or èntèntê

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

Further reading

• “entente” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French entente.

Noun

entente f (plural ententes)

1. entente