potemkin village

1. 1.

   something that seems impressive but in fact lacks substance

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Questions about potemkin village

What does potemkin village mean?

potemkin village means "something that seems impressive but in fact lacks substance".

Is potemkin village a common word?

potemkin village is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.