DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
potemkin
/poʊ'tɛmkɪn/ · poʊtɛmkɪn
Potemkin has 3 syllables: po · tem · kin.
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tem
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noun. 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).
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