popularise

See also: popularisé

English

Alternative forms

• popularize (American)

Etymology

From popular +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpjʊləɹaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

popularise (third-person singular simple present popularises, present participle popularising, simple past and past participle popularised) (British spelling)

1. (transitive) To make something popular.

   Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".

   • 1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:

     Towards the end of August, the Southern Railway decided to adopt a novel form of publicity to popularise the services. Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.

   • 1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Railbuses on the W.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:

     Special cheap day return facilities have been introduced to popularise the railbuses.

2. (transitive) To present something in a widely understandable or acceptable form, especially technical or scientific material for a general audience.

Translations

to make popular

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: папулярызава́ць impf or pf (papuljaryzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: популяризирам (bg) (populjariziram)
• Catalan: popularitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普及 (zh) (pǔjí), 推廣／推广 (zh) (tuīguǎng)

• Czech: zpopularizovat (cs) pf
• Danish: popularisere
• Finnish: tehdä suosituksi, tehdä tunnetuksi
• French: populariser (fr)
• Galician: popularizar (gl)
• German: popularisieren
• Hungarian: népszerűsít (hu), popularizál (hu) (dated)
• Ido: popularigar (io)
• Japanese: 大衆化する (たいしゅうかする, taishūka suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: popularisere

  Nynorsk: popularisere

• Polish: popularyzować (pl) impf, spopularyzować (pl) pf, upowszechniać (pl) impf, upowszechnić pf
• Portuguese: popularizar (pt)
• Romanian: populariza (ro)
• Russian: популяризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (populjarizírovatʹ), популяризо́вывать impf (populjarizóvyvatʹ), популяризова́ть (ru) pf (populjarizovátʹ)
• Spanish: popularizar (es), masificar (es)
• Swedish: popularisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: популяризува́ти impf or pf (populjaryzuváty)
• Welsh: poblogeiddio (cy)

to present in a widely understandable form

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通俗化 (zh) (tōngsúhuà), 普及 (zh) (pǔjí), 大眾化／大众化 (zh) (dàzhònghuà)

• Czech: popularizovat
• Finnish: helppotajuistaa, popularisoida, kansantajuistaa (fi)
• French: vulgariser (fr)
• Galician: popularizar (gl)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

French

Verb

popularise

1. inflection of populariser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• populaires