popularize

[pop-yuh-luh-rahyz]

verb (used with object), pop·u·lar·ized, pop·u·lar·iz·ing.

to make popular: to popularize a dance.

Also especially British, pop·u·lar·ise.

Origin of popularize

First recorded in 1585–95; popular + -ize

Related formspop·u·lar·i·za·tion, nounpop·u·lar·iz·er, nounan·ti·pop·u·lar·i·za·tion, adjective, nounde·pop·u·lar·ize, verb (used with object), de·pop·u·lar·ized, de·pop·u·lar·iz·ing.re·pop·u·lar·i·za·tion, nounre·pop·u·lar·ize, verb (used with object), re·pop·u·lar·ized, re·pop·u·lar·iz·ing.sem·i·pop·u·lar·ized, adjectiveun·pop·u·lar·ized, adjective

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Historical Examples of popularise

It will be a shame if you do not popularise your researches.
More Letters of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
In short, she could popularise, while she could neither discover nor invent….
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
John Morley
Ruskin did but popularise Carpaccio, and buy and sell Turner.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
In that case the husband is expected to hawk the Khaddar from door to door and popularise it.
The Wheel of Fortune
Mahatma Gandhi
It does not pretend to popularise studies which are yet in their infancy.
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha
Madhava Acharya

British Dictionary definitions for popularise

popularize

popularise

verb (tr)

to make popular; make attractive to the general public

to make or cause to become easily understandable or acceptable

Derived Formspopularization or popularisation, nounpopularizer or populariser, noun

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Word Origin and History for popularise

popularize

"to make a complex topic intelligible to the people," 1833, from popular + -ize. Earlier "to cater to popular taste" (1590s); "to make popular" (1797). Related: Popularized; popularizing.