Usually means: Facade designed to deceive observers.
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  1. Potemkin: Merriam-Webster
  2. Potemkin, Potemkin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Potemkin: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Potemkin: Vocabulary.com
  5. Potemkin, potemkin: Wordnik
  6. Potemkin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. potemkin: Dictionary.com
  8. Potemkin (disambiguation), Potemkin (surname), Potemkin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. potemkin: FreeDictionary.org
  10. potemkin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. Potemkin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Potemkin: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Potemkin)

▸ noun:  A transliteration of the Russian surname Потёмкин (Potjómkin).
▸ noun:  (figurative, attributive) Resembling a Potemkin village; fake, facade.

Similar:
Randian, Crimean, soviet, Russias, Crimea, bourgois, Chicom, Russi, Pushkin, Stalinist, more...

Opposite:
authentic, genuine, real, bonfide

Phrases:
Potemkin village, prince potemkin, potemkin villages, grigori potemkin, grigori aleksandrovich potemkin, more...

Adjectives:
russian, famous, great, classic, favorite, armoured, celebrated, general, young, favourite, prince

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Similar:
Randian, Crimean, soviet, Russias, Crimea, bourgois, Chicom, Russi, Pushkin, Stalinist, more...

Opposite:
authentic, genuine, real, bonfide

Phrases:
Potemkin village, prince potemkin, potemkin villages, grigori potemkin, grigori aleksandrovich potemkin, potemkin grigori aleksandrovich, Grigory Potemkin, potemkin court, Battleship Potemkin, more...

Adjectives:
russian, famous, great, classic, favorite, armoured, celebrated, general, young, favourite, prince



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