Popularize
['pɑpjələraɪz]
Definition
(verb.) make understandable to the general public; 'Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books'.
(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'.
Typist: Tyler--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Examples
- Through all the agents that make and popularize thought must come a bent of mind interested in invention and freed from the authority of ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In this and other ways it became popularized to a still further extent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Perhaps the ease of travel, the popularizing of knowledge, the break-down of frontiers have given us a new interest in human life by showing how temporary are all its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- General Scott was also known to have political aspirations, and nothing so popularizes a candidate for high civil positions as military victories. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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