popularise

1. 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”

   Synonymspopularizevulgarizevulgarisegeneralizegeneralise

   Broadercirculate
2. 2.

   make understandable to the general public

   “Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books”

   Synonymspopularize

   Broadergear

Other forms of popularise

past tense

popularised·

present participle

popularising·

third person

popularises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about popularise

What does popularise mean?

popularise means "cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in popularise?

popularise has 4 syllables: po-pu-la-rise. The stress falls on "pu".

What is another word for popularise?

Close synonyms include popularize, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is popularise a common word?

popularise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.