verb
Meaning 1
To make something popular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
popularise
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To present information in a form less difficult for the general public to understand or enjoy, especially by excluding details and jargon found in technical or academic publications.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: communication, communications
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
make understandable to the general public
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: popularize
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gear, pitch
verb
Meaning 4
cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They popularized coffee in Washington State
- Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: popularize, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *poplos Old Latin populus Latin populus Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin populārislbor. Old French populairebor. ▲ Latin populārisbor. Middle English populer English popular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ise English popularise From popular + -ise.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: папулярызава́ць (papuljaryzavácʹ) — to make popular
- Bulgarian: популяризирам (populjariziram) — to make popular
- Catalan: popularitzar — to make popular
- Chinese Mandarin: 普及 (pǔjí) — to make popular
- Chinese Mandarin: 推廣 /推广 (tuīguǎng) — to make popular
- Czech: zpopularizovat — to make popular
- Danish: popularisere — to make popular
- Finnish: tehdä suosituksi — to make popular
- Finnish: tehdä tunnetuksi — to make popular
- French: populariser — to make popular
- Galician: popularizar — to make popular
- German: popularisieren — to make popular
- Hungarian: népszerűsít — to make popular
- Hungarian: popularizál — to make popular
- Ido: popularigar — to make popular
- Japanese: 大衆化する (taishūka suru) — to make popular
- Norwegian Bokmål: popularisere — to make popular
- Norwegian Nynorsk: popularisere — to make popular
- Polish: popularyzować — to make popular
- Polish: spopularyzować — to make popular
- Polish: upowszechniać — to make popular
- Polish: upowszechnić — to make popular
- Portuguese: popularizar — to make popular
- Romanian: populariza — to make popular
- Russian: популяризи́ровать (populjarizírovatʹ) — to make popular
- Russian: популяризо́вывать (populjarizóvyvatʹ) — to make popular
- Russian: популяризова́ть (populjarizovátʹ) — to make popular
- Spanish: popularizar — to make popular
- Spanish: masificar — to make popular
- Swedish: popularisera — to make popular
- Ukrainian: популяризува́ти (populjaryzuváty) — to make popular
- Welsh: poblogeiddio — to make popular
- Chinese Mandarin: 通俗化 (tōngsúhuà) — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Chinese Mandarin: 普及 (pǔjí) — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Chinese Mandarin: 大眾化 /大众化 (dàzhònghuà) — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Czech: popularizovat — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Finnish: helppotajuistaa — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Finnish: popularisoida — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Finnish: kansantajuistaa — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- French: vulgariser — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Galician: popularizar — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Polish: popularyzować — to present information in a form which the general public better understands
- Polish: spopularyzować — to present information in a form which the general public better understands