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grigori potemkin is a noun meaning "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)". It carries one recorded sense.
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)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grigori potemkin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.