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popularise in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  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"
    popularize  popularise  vulgarize  vulgarise  generalize  generalise 
  2. make understandable to the general public
    "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
    popularize  popularise 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


popularise in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (transitive) to make something popular
  2. (verb) (transitive) to present something in a widely understandable or acceptable form, especially technical or scientific material for a general audience
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