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
dailies plural
: unedited movie footage processed or shared immediately after shooting for review by the cinematographer, director, or producer : rush entry 3 sense 6
3
: a quest or task in a video game that resets every day and for which a small bonus is given when completed
4
British, old-fashioned
: a servant who works on a daily basis
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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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
—Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2026
San Diego International had 246,700 operations, averaging 676 daily, during the same period.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
In the current moment, when transgender people are treated as a political symbol, Plett’s work re-affirms the daily, the human, and the relational.
—Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
September 23 – October 22 Your daily tasks may require more coordination.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
—Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
Adverb
Roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and other oil products normally pass through the strait daily, equivalent to 20% of global oil demand, though traffic has dropped dramatically since the war began.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2026
San Diego International had 246,700 operations, averaging 676 daily, during the same period.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
Within two days, the Moy-Chin nuptials became national news, the sort of story that editors of small-town papers liked to pluck out of the big-city dailies and run alongside items about the oldest living person or the length of the Nile River.
—Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
In the current moment, when transgender people are treated as a political symbol, Plett’s work re-affirms the daily, the human, and the relational.
—Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Daily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daily. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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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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