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Definition of Popularise
1. Verb. Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use. "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
Related verbs: Popularize
Generic synonyms: Broadcast, Circularise, Circularize, Circulate, Diffuse, Disperse, Disseminate, Distribute, Pass Around, Propagate, Spread
Derivative terms: Popularisation, Populariser, Popularization, Popularizer, Vulgarisation, Vulgariser, Vulgar, Vulgarization, Vulgarizer
2. Verb. Make understandable to the general public. "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
Generic synonyms: Gear, Pitch
Related verbs: Generalise, Generalize, Popularize, Vulgarise, Vulgarize
Derivative terms: Popularisation, Popularization
Definition of Popularise
1. Verb. (transitive) To make something (popular). ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To present something in a (widely) (understandable) or (acceptable) (form), especially technical or (scientific) material for a general (audience). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Popularise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popularise
Literary usage of Popularise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1895)
"HOW TO popularise ORCHID-GROWING. By Mr. EH WOODALL, PRHS [Bead October 9, 1894.]
I WILL begin the little address I am to give you ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Some authors of our own day—Southey in particular—have helped to popularise
Wither, by frequent quotation and eulogy ; but Mr Ellis, in his Specimens of ..."
3. The World as Imagination (series I) by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1916)
"Thought, in the sense of reason, is a secondary phenomenon. How our view tends
to popularise philosophy. is just this, Reasoning and its static precipitate ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"... steel ships have again and again come comparatively scath- who have done more
than any other to popularise and improve the cellular system—to reproduce ..."
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