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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Coffee Trivia

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.

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