Popularize

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Popularize \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.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  popularize
       v 1: 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" [syn: {popularise},
             {vulgarize}, {vulgarise}, {generalize}, {generalise}]
       2: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan
          popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: {popularise}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "popularize":
     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