(v) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use, Syn. vulgarize, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, generalise, Example:They popularized coffee in Washington State; Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Popularized p. pr. & vb. n. Popularizing ] [ Cf. F. populariser. ] To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. “The popularizing of religious teaching.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]
[おくにかぶき, okunikabuki] (n) Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
[いっぱんか, ippanka] (n) (1) generalization; generalisation; popularization; popularisation; (vs) (2) to generalize; to generalise; to popularize; to popularise
[だるまうた, darumauta] (n) (obsc) confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika)