Potsdam

UK: English: /ˈpɒtsdæm/, German: /ˈpɔtsdam/

US: (pots′dam; for 1 also Ger. pôts′däm)

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Pots•dam  (pots′dam; for 1 also Ger. pôts′däm), n. 

1. Place Names 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. 142,860.
2. Place Names a town in N New York. 10,635.

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Potsdam / ˈpɒtsdæm ˈpɔtsdam/ 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 World War II. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)