POPULARIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they popularize ... he / she / it popularizes

Past simple: popularized

Past participle: popularized

-ing form: popularizing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make understandable to the general public

Example:

Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books

Synonyms:

popularise; popularize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "popularize" 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:

popularization (an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Example:

Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors

Synonyms:

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "popularize" 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:

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

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