entente cordiale vs coalition

entente cordiale and coalition both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of entente cordiale include alignment, alinement, alliance.

entente cordiale (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