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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use;
- Example: "They popularized coffee in Washington State"
- Example: "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
[syn: popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise]

2. make understandable to the general public;
- Example: "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
[syn: popularize, popularise]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

popularise
    v 1: 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,
         popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize,
         generalise]
    2: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan
       popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: popularize,
       popularise]