Definition of popularize Popularize
/pɑˈpjʌlɚajˌz/ - [papyulerayz] - pop•u•lar•ize
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British English
popularise - /pˈɒpjʊləɹˌaɪz/
American English
popularize - /pɑˈpjʌlɚajˌz/
What does popularize mean?
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| popularize - 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" | ||
| popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise | ||
| disseminate, pass around, broadcast, circularise, diffuse, circularize, disperse, circulate, propagate, distribute, spread sow over a wide area, especially by hand; "broadcast seeds" | ||
| popularize - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" | ||
| popularise | ||
| gear, pitch set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- popularize (v. t.)
To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.
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🔤- popularize, verb, present, 1st person singular of popularize (infinitive).
- popularize, verb (infinitive).
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