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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • etc. See popularization, etc.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of popularization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of making something attractive to the general public
  • noun an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable

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Examples

  • When considering the "popularisation" of the AU and the PAP, the working group had also mooted the suggestion that while the PAP would need a permanent base, it might consider holding some of its sessions in a number of countries, Ginwala said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • There's no indication that I can find of how the programme will work or what format it will follow but I'm a big advocate of this kind of popularisation of archaeology.

    Irish Blogs Seand?la?ocht - Irish for Archaeology - Blog 2010

  • Their music led to a popularisation of Irish and Celtic music and other aspects of Irish and Celtic culture in Serbia.

    Discourse.net: Orthodox Celts 2009

  • Aiming to give regular liturgical education to circles, associations, etc., and to employ all the customary methods of popularisation to this end.

    Dom Lambert Beauduin's 1914 Programme for the Liturgical Movement: Foundational Principles for a New Liturgical Movement 2009

  • And I know what you mean about the popularisation of philosophy looking like a deformation.

    Real-Time Book Blogging! « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • No company played as important a part in the spread and popularisation of music in this country than the one whose bicentenary is being celebrated at London's South Bank on Tuesday night.

    In praise of … Novello & Co 2011

  • Howeve I am disgusted by the Israels politicisation and popularisation of the Holocausta and Anti – Semetism for its own political Gain and to justify its continual oppression of the Palestinians. niqnaq says:

    so british jews are anti-semitic? 2008

  • Shulgin's popularisation of ecstasy eventually gave rise to acid house, the last significant drug-led subculture.

    Drugs: the highs and lows Johnny Davis 2010

  • Wells that initiated and defined the genre boundaries of early science fiction, along with the popularisation of the fourth dimension and the advent of the Theory of Relativity that such literature drew upon, whilst the writings of Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, and Raymond Roussel gave them a related comic, absurd, or fantastic perspective on the machine and technology.

    February « 2010 « Dynamic Subspace 2010

  • With the inspiring examples of both Somerville and Mitchell, the work of popularisation rapidly expanded in Victorian England after 1860.

    The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

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