verb
Meaning 1
American and Oxford British spelling of popularise
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
popularize
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verb
Meaning 2
make understandable to the general public
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: popularise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gear, pitch
verb
Meaning 3
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: popularise, 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 -ize English popularize From popular + -ize.
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