Medaille Militaire vs ribbon

Medaille Militaire and ribbon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Medaille Militaire	Yes	No	No	No
ribbon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ribbon is a hypernym of Medaille Militaire; that is, ribbon is a word with a broader meaning than Medaille Militaire:

Medaille Militaire: a French military decoration
ribbon: an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Other hypernyms of Medaille Militaire include decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm.

Medaille Militaire (noun)	ribbon (noun)
a French military decoration	notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
	a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
	an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
	any long object resembling a thin line