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
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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
