Defenition of the word potemkin

• Defenition of the word potemkin

  • a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)

Hypernyms for the word potemkin

• • military officer
  • officer
  • pol
  • political leader
  • politician
  • politico

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