POPULARISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does popularise mean? 

• POPULARISE (verb)
  The verb POPULARISE has 2 senses:

1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

2. make understandable to the general public

  Familiarity information: POPULARISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULARISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they popularise    ... he / she / it popularises   
Past simple: popularised   
Past participle: popularised   
-ing form: popularising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize

Context example:

Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors

Hypernyms (to "popularise" is one way to...):

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)

Verb group:

popularise; popularize (make understandable to the general public)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

popularisation (the act of making something attractive to the general public)

populariser (someone who makes something attractive to the general public)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make understandable to the general public

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

popularise; popularize

Context example:

Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books

Hypernyms (to "popularise" is one way to...):

gear; pitch (set the level or character of)

Verb group:

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

popularisation (an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable)