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vulgarisation

vulgarisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarization.

Meaning of vulgarization

Noun

vulgarization (countable and uncountable, plural vulgarizations)

  1. (British, Canada, English, Oxford, US) The process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people.
  2. (British, Canada, English, Oxford, US, uncommon) The process of making something accessible and attractive to the general public; the popular-science presentation of a topic, its popularization.

Forms of vulgarisation

pluralvulgarisations

Questions about vulgarisation

What is vulgarisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Vulgarisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarization.

Words near vulgarisation in the dictionary

  1. vulgarer
  2. vulgarest
  3. vulgarian
  4. vulgarians
  5. vulgarily
  6. vulgarisation
  7. vulgarisations
  8. vulgarise
  9. vulgarised
  10. vulgariser
  11. vulgarisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulgarisation (page history and authors); vulgarization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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