repopularise
British spelling of 'repopularize' — to make something popular again after it has gone out of fashion or fallen from favour.
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British spelling of 'repopularize' — to make something popular again after it has gone out of fashion or fallen from favour. The word is formal and fairly rare in everyday speech but appears in commentary on cultural revivals, political campaigns, and social trends.
The documentary managed to repopularise a musical genre that had been largely ignored for two decades.
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(British, transitive) To make popular again.
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- repopularize86%
(US, transitive) To make popular again.
- repopularize84%
To make something popular again after it fell out of fashion — the verb form of a cultural comeback. You can repopularize a music genre, a fashion trend, a forgotten TV show, or even a slang word. It's the linguistic equivalent of a revival, and in the age of TikTok, repopularizing things is basically a full-time industry. One viral post can repopularize a 30-year-old song overnight. Straightforward modern American English, no slang baggage, totally understood.
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(British) To authorize again; to give new authority to.
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(UK, politics) representation by population.