1
a
: occurring, made, or acted upon every day
daily needs
b
: issued every day or every weekday
a daily newspaper
c
: of or providing for every day
a daily schedule
2
a
: reckoned by the day
average daily wage
b
: covering the period of or based on a day
daily statistics
1
: every day
Take one pill twice daily.
2
: every weekday
They serve lunch at school daily.
plural dailies
1
: a newspaper that is published every day or every day except Sunday
2
British, old-fashioned
: a servant who works on a daily basis
3
dailies plural
: the first prints of a movie showing the scenes that are filmed each day : rush sense 6
Examples of daily in a Sentence
Adjective
It has changed every aspect of daily life.
I started eating healthier and added exercise to my daily routine.
daily activities such as eating breakfast and washing your face
There's not enough water to meet the daily needs of the city's people.
She reads the daily paper each morning.
Their average daily wage is only five dollars.
She had been taking more than the recommended daily dose of the medicine.
Noun
the city's two largest dailies
hired a daily to come in each morning to cook and clean
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Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Anyway, here's a quick step-by-step for daily cleaning, following the good advice of toaster oven makers Breville, Cuisinart, and Panasonic.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2025
Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2025
Check your mail daily, as soon as possible after it’s delivered.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Particularly gnarly cases of recurrence might require taking a preventive low-dose antibiotic daily for up to six months.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Almost certainly riffing on Teresa Amabile’s work on the progress principle, Pink encourages us to maintain momentum in our daily work by writing down three bullet points at the end of every day that acknowledge our progress.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Anyway, here's a quick step-by-step for daily cleaning, following the good advice of toaster oven makers Breville, Cuisinart, and Panasonic.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2025
Adverb
The menu changes daily and reflects Corcoran’s proud Irish heritage, as well as time spent in France and the Basque Country: potato leek soup, guinea fowl pie, Dublin coddle, rice pudding.
—Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 17 Mar. 2025
Check your mail daily, as soon as possible after it’s delivered.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
Post this daily in a short companywide blog for all to see and read.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Particularly gnarly cases of recurrence might require taking a preventive low-dose antibiotic daily for up to six months.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Daily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daily. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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daily
1 of 2 adjective
dai·ly
ˈdā-lē 
1
a
: occurring, done, produced, or used every day or every weekday
a daily newspaper
b
: of or relating to every day
daily visitor
2
: figured in terms of one day
daily wages
daily
adverb
daily
2 of 2 noun
plural dailies
: a newspaper published every weekday
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