Definitions for Potemkin

Potemkin Po·tëm·kin

Spelling: [poh-tem-kin, puh-; Russian puh-tyawm-kyin]
IPA: /poʊˈtɛm kɪn, pə-; Russian pʌˈtyɔm kyɪn/

Potemkin is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in Potemkin (eikmnopt).

Definitions for Potemkin

noun

  1. Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich [gri-gawr-ee al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1739–91, Russian statesman and favorite of Catherine II.

Examples for Potemkin

It was a potemkin Village of technology, camera-ready but a long way short of leaving the ground.

It cost the empire dearly, but potemkin's purpose was achieved.

The name of the typewriter who set up the first word of freedom was potemkin!

No one outside Limbaughland or Trumpville, potemkin villages where no one will vote for Obama anyway, credited the humbug.

potemkin, your invincible feeder, will back you to the last.'

He recalled all the words spoken at that first meeting with potemkin.

The name of the typesetter who set up the first word of freedom was potemkin.

It's as potemkin Village-ish a piece of journalistic writing as I've seen in a long time.

The lobbyist-journalist-politician scandal has dynamited the potemkin village that is Indian journalism.

potemkin distillers are going to have all the juice they need for years to come.

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