Potemkin

Po tem kin 1 |pəˈtem (p )kin pəˈtɛmpkən | a battleship whose crew mutinied during the Russian Revolution of 1905 when in the Black Sea, bombarding Odessa before seeking asylum in Romania. The incident persuaded the tsar to agree to a measure of reform.

Potemkin

Po tem kin 2 |pəˈtɛmpkən pəˈtem (p )kin | ▶adjective informal having a false or deceptive appearance, esp. one presented for the purpose of propaganda: it proved her to be a Potemkin feminist. ORIGIN 1930s: from Grigori Aleksandrovich Potyomkin (often transliterated Potemkin ), a favorite 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.

Potemkin

Potemkin 1 |pəˈtɛmkɪn | a battleship whose crew mutinied in the Russian Revolution of 1905 when in the Black Sea, bombarding Odessa before seeking asylum in Romania. The incident persuaded the tsar to agree to a measure of reform.

Potemkin

Potemkin 2 |pəˈtɛmkɪn | ▶adjective informal having a false or deceptive appearance, especially one presented for the purpose of propaganda: it is a Potemkin party; there is little behind the impressive parliamentary group seen on television. ORIGIN 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.

potemkinsch

po tem kinsch Adjektiv |pot e mkinsch …kiːnʃ auch paˈtjɔmkɪnʃ | Dorf 1

Potemkinschen Dörfer

Po tem kin schen Dör fer , po tem kin schen Dör fer Po tem kin'schen Dör fer potemkinschen Dörfer Potemkin'schen Dörfer |Pot e mkinschen D ö rfer pot e mkinschen D ö rfer Pot e mkin'schen D ö rfer auch paˈtjɔmkɪn … -auch paˈtjɔmkɪn … -auch paˈtjɔmkɪn … -|die (Plural ) die (Plural ) die (Plural ) nach dem russischen Fürsten Potemkin (1739 –1791 ), der Dorfattrappen errichten ließ, um Wohlstand vorzutäuschen 1 Trugbilder, Vorgetäuschtes 2 Vorspiegelung falscher Tatsachen