Potsdam

American  

[pots-dam, pawts-dahm] / ˈpɒts dæm, ˈpɔts dɑm /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Brandenburg, in NE Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the residence of German emperors; wartime conference July–August 1945 of Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and later, Attlee.

2. a town in N New York.

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Potsdam British  

/ ˈpɔtsdam, ˈpɒtsdæm /

noun

1. a city in Germany, the capital of Brandenburg on the Havel River: residence of Prussian kings and German emperors and scene of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, at which the main Allied powers agreed on a plan to occupy Germany at the end of the Second World War. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Eta, a former Germany youth international and Women's Champions League winner with Turbine Potsdam, will take charge of Union Berlin's women's side this summer.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

BERLIN—For three years, a crack team of detectives gathered each weekday morning around a whiteboard at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam, near Berlin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Climate scientist Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said humanity now faces perhaps 50 to 70 years above 1.5C before possibly dragging temperatures back down.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

The findings come from an international research team led by the University of Potsdam and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim in collaboration with the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, and were recently published in Current Biology.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025

Political leaders were open to the idea of accepting the Potsdam demand.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin