popularize

(verb)

verb

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

Similar word(s): generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize

Definition categories: communication, broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, propagate, spread

2. make understandable to the general public

- Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books

Similar word(s): popularise

Definition categories: change, gear, pitch