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

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 next round of talks is set to take place on Friday in Potsdam.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

“If you introduce a new source of extraction, you bring competition to the market,” said Pradeep Singh, an ocean governance expert at the Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam, Germany.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

On October 2, 1932, nine months after Herbert’s death, Adolf Hitler addressed 70,000 Hitler Youth at a special rally in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti