Popularize Definition & Meaning

popularize
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"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
  2. make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"

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