Meaning of POPULARIZE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâpyûlu`rIz
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- [v] make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | generalise, generalize, popularise, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
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| | See Also: | | broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, gear, pass around, pitch, propagate, spread | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pop"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Popularized};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Popularizing}.] [Cf. F. populariser.]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | account for, allegorize, clarify, clear up, coarsen, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, make clear, make it clear, make plain, put across, put over, rationalize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vulgarize |
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