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
Synonyms
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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Riot police used water cannons and tear gas almost daily to disperse and beat scores of protesters, some of whom threw fireworks at police officers and built barricades on the capital’s central boulevard.
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Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Japan will provide $3 billion in loans to Ukraine, backed by income from frozen Russian assets, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Wearable devices can provide daily monitoring, while generative AI tools can notify patients when their conditions are stable or require intervention.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Adverb
According to recent data, the number of annual voice search users reached 125.2 million in 2023, with over 50% of adults worldwide using voice search daily.
—Akram Atallah, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Riot police used water cannons and tear gas almost daily to disperse and beat scores of protesters, some of whom threw fireworks at police officers and built barricades on the capital’s central boulevard.
—Sophiko Megrelidze, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
Water Tower Color launches with a trio of color grading stages, four finishing suites for movies or episodic work) and dailies suites.
—Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Japan will provide $3 billion in loans to Ukraine, backed by income from frozen Russian assets, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Daily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daily. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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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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