Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something (l en popular). 2 (context transitive English) To present#Verb something in a (l en widely) (l en understandable) or (l en acceptable) (l en form), especially technical or (l en scientific) material for a general#Adjective (l en audience).
WordNet
v. 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: popularize, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise]
make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: popularize]
Usage examples of "popularise".
Darwin will have a crown sufficient for any ordinary brow remaining in the achievement of having done more than any other writer, living or dead, to popularise evolution.
And, as much as was possible when dealing with a body of men as naturally conservative as the English police, he had popularised it.
Rinehart popularised in her novels-maintaining suspense by keeping the plucky heroine in constant jeopardy.
Rinehart popularised in her novelsmaintaining suspense by keeping the plucky heroine in constant jeopardy.
The traditional 'Iranian Dualism' popularised by books on the history of religions is far from corresponding to the reality of the beliefs which were held between the days of Cyrus and the Moslem conquest.
Hellenistic sculpture has popularised the scene of the immolation of a bull by Mithra, wearing a Phrygian cap, in one of those grottoes where the initiates gathered.
A few such matches would go far towards popularising pigeon-flying in America, and form an agreeable variety to the morbid exhibitions of human endurance which have assumed such proportions during the last few years.