According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
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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