Potemkin

Meaning of Potemkin

adjective
  1. having a false or deceptive appearance, especially one presented for the purpose of propaganda.
    a Potemkin news network, set up only to give the appearance of a free press

1930s: from Grigori Aleksandrovich Potyomkin (often transliterated Potemkin ), a favourite of Empress Catherine II of Russia, who reputedly gave the order for sham villages to be built for the empress's tour of the Crimea in 1787.

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  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of Potemkin

Potemkin

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • Potemkin is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with Potemkin

simkin, Potyomkin, Tomkin, bloomkin, boomkin, tomkin, barmkin, Frumkin, bumkin, rumkin

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