  We present experimental schemes to prepare the three-cavity GHZ-type and
\emph{W}-type entangled coherent states in the context of dispersive cavity
quantum electrodynamics. The schemes can be easily generalized to prepare the
GHZ-type and \emph{W}-type entangled coherent states of $n$-cavity fields. The
discussion of our schemes indicates that it can be realized by current
technologies.
