popularize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
    popularise; vulgarise; generalise; generalize; vulgarize.
    • They popularized coffee in Washington State
    • Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
  2. verb make understandable to the general public
    popularise.
    • Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books

WordNet

Pop"u*lar*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. populariser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Popularized ; present participle & verbal noun Popularizing
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913