English Explanatory Dictionary

daily

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.
  2. Diurnal: by daylight.
noun
  1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
  2. A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.
  3. A cleaner who comes in daily.
  4. A daily disposable.
  5. A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
  6. A daily driver.
  7. Raw, unedited footage traditionally developed overnight and viewed by the cast and crew the next day.
verb
  1. To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
  2. To use, especially of a computer or operating system, for everyday tasks.
adv
  1. quotidianly, every day
  2. diurnally, by daylight
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

dāli /ˈdeɪli/ en-us-daily.ogg /ˈɖeli/ /ˈɖɛjli/ /ˈɖe(j)li/

Word forms

daily dayly dailies dailying dailied Dailys

Etymology

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Synonyms

journal quotidian per diem circadian daily diurnal hemeral nychthemeral circadianly diurnally daily paper daily help daily maid

Antonyms

ahemeral nightly at night

Related words

annual infradian monthly quartan tertian ultradian weekly everyday hebdomadal nightly quotidian yearly

Derived words

bidaily dailily dailiness daily-able daily average revenue trades daily beater daily bread daily-breader daily devotional daily double daily drive daily grind daily life daily necessities daily strip daily torpor interdaily intradaily multidaily nondaily non-daily on a daily basis on the daily President's Daily Briefing Saturdaily semi-daily semidaily subdaily Sundaily tridaily
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