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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This longer dosing time also addresses common challenges many have faced with daily medicines, including adherence, stigma and fear of accidentally disclosing status through pill bottles.
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Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Americans have gone from seeing about 500 advertisements a day in the 1970s to more than 5,000 daily, as of 2023.
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Representatives from the state Assembly, governor’s office and state Senate have been meeting near-daily over the past few weeks to hammer out a deal.
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Adjective
As the pandemic fundamentally shifted youth political engagement, the show quickly became one of the nation’s most popular political podcasts, reaching 5 million monthly listeners and 750,000 daily downloads by mid-2025.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
This longer dosing time also addresses common challenges many have faced with daily medicines, including adherence, stigma and fear of accidentally disclosing status through pill bottles.
—Pearl Pugh, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
That could mean walking for at least 30 minutes daily, ideally at a level of intensity that makes talking a little difficult, Verghese said.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Americans have gone from seeing about 500 advertisements a day in the 1970s to more than 5,000 daily, as of 2023.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
Doctors Against Genocide, a group made up of more than 20,000 medical professionals around the world, is in contact with doctors in Gaza daily, Jboor said.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Representatives from the state Assembly, governor’s office and state Senate have been meeting near-daily over the past few weeks to hammer out a deal.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Daily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daily. Accessed 21 Sep. 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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