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View synonyms for popularize

popularize

[ pop-yuh-luh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, pop·u·lar·ized, pop·u·lar·iz·ing.
  1. to make popular:

    to popularize a dance.



popularize

/ ˈpɒpjʊləˌraɪz /

verb

  1. to make popular; make attractive to the general public
  2. to make or cause to become easily understandable or acceptable


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpopularˌizer, noun
  • ˌpopulariˈzation, noun

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Other Words From

  • popu·lar·i·zation noun
  • popu·lar·izer noun
  • anti·popu·lar·i·zation adjective noun
  • de·popu·lar·ize verb (used with object) depopularized depopularizing
  • repop·u·lar·i·zation noun
  • re·popu·lar·ize verb (used with object) repopularized repopularizing
  • semi·popu·lar·ized adjective
  • un·popu·lar·ized adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of popularize1

First recorded in 1585–95; popular + -ize

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Example Sentences

Looking back to the early days of snowboarding, then called snurfing and popularized by inventor Sherman Poppen in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan, Made in the Mitten follows the pow-filled history of this wintertime sport.

For now, SpaceX appears to be leading the drive to popularize space tourism.

She helped popularize the New Orleans sound called bounce and notched a famous Beyoncé sample along the way.

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These are only a few examples of the complex issues that popularized narratives about a “reading war” obscure.

Affirm, a business that has helped popularize a “buy now pay later” trend for Internet shopping, offered its shares to the public on Wednesday.

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During that time, his efforts to popularize it did not make him any friends.

Twilight Park, being the resort of literary people and their friends, did much to popularize log houses with city people.

He has done much to popularize the fascinating art of white magic.

Wishing to popularize the Beowulf, he used as a medium of translation a peculiarly stilted kind of blank verse.

We shall have her with us—a beautiful young woman would popularize our cause beyond anything.

I have a great plan in view: to popularize the legends of Islam and other strange faiths in a series of books.

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