WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
popularise v 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" [syn: popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise] 2: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: popularize, popularise]