POPULARIZE

popularize, popularise

(verb) make understandable to the general public; “Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books”

popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise

(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; “They popularized coffee in Washington State”; “Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

popularize (third-person singular simple present popularizes, present participle popularizing, simple past and past participle popularized)

To make popular.

Source: Wiktionary


Pop"u*lar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Popularized; p. pr. & vb. n. Popularizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. populariser.]

Definition: To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching." Milman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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