Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Occurring, done, or produced every day: Describes something that happens or is used each day as part of a regular routine.
   • Relating to a single day or calculated per day: Pertaining to the period of one day or measured on a daily basis.

2. Adverb:

   • Every day; on each successive day: Indicates that an action is performed each day without exception.

3. Noun:

   • A newspaper published every day except possibly Sunday: A periodical issued on a daily schedule.
   • (Chiefly British, informal) A person, typically a woman, who cleans or does domestic work in a home on a daily basis: A daily help or cleaner.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • She follows a strict daily exercise regimen.
  • The daily commute to work can be tiring.
  • What is the daily recommended intake of vitamins?

• Adverb:

  • The medication must be taken daily.
  • He checks his email daily.

• Noun:

  • I read about it in this morning's daily.
  • Their daily comes every weekday to clean the house.

Advanced Usage

• "daily bread": A metaphorical phrase for one's basic sustenance or livelihood.

  • He works hard to earn his daily bread.

• "daily grind": The monotonous routine of everyday work or life.

  • She needed a vacation to escape the daily grind.

• "daily double": (In horse racing or similar) a bet in which the winners of two specified races must be picked. (This is a compound term listed here as an example of advanced, specific usage).

  • He won a significant amount on the daily double at the track.

Variants and Related Words

• Day-to-day (adj): Occurring on a daily basis; routine.

  • He manages the day-to-day operations of the business.

• Dailyness (n, rare): The quality of being daily or everyday.

  • The dailyness of the chores made them tedious.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Everyday, quotidian, diurnal, day-to-day.
• Adverb: Every day, day after day, per diem.
• Noun: Newspaper, paper, journal; (for cleaner) charwoman, cleaner.

Related Phrases and Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Daily" is not commonly used to form phrasal verbs. The following are common collocations.) - To do something daily: To perform an action every day. - It's important to practice the language daily.

• Published daily: Issued every day.
  • The financial report is published daily.

Related Idioms

• The daily round: The usual series of activities that make up an ordinary day.

  • After his retirement, he missed the structure of the daily round.

• A daily occurrence: Something that happens every day; a common event.

  • Traffic jams are a daily occurrence in the city.

Adjective

1. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
   • casual clothes
   • everyday clothes
2. of or belonging to or occurring every day
   • daily routine
   • a daily paper

Adverb

1. gradually and progressively
   • his health weakened day by day
2. every day; without missing a day
   • he stops by daily

Noun

1. a newspaper that is published every day