Main entry: popularise, popularize
Definition: make understandable to the general public
Usage: Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
Main entry: popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise, generalize
Definition: 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