What is the meaning of popularize?

verb

  • Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.
    • usage: "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
  • Make understandable to the general public.
    • usage: "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
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