entente vs coalition

entente and coalition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
entente	Yes	No	No	No
coalition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, coalition is a hypernym of entente; that is, coalition is a word with a broader meaning than entente:

entente: an informal alliance between countries
coalition: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

Other hypernyms of entente include alignment, alinement, alliance.

entente (noun)	coalition (noun)
a friendly understanding between political powers	the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
an informal alliance between countries	an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
	the state of being combined into one body