what does popularize mean?
POPULARIZE as VERB
- Meaning
- make understandable to the general public
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Usage Example(s)
- Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
Hypernyms(s) popularize is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public
- bring into general or common use
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- They popularized coffee in Washington State
- Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
Hypernyms(s) popularize is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
Derived(s)
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