daily
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.
Adverb:
- Every day; on each successive day: Indicates that an action is performed each day without exception.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
- Adjective: Everyday, quotidian, diurnal, day-to-day.
- Adverb: Every day, day after day, per diem.
- Noun: Newspaper, paper, journal; (for cleaner) charwoman, cleaner.
(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.
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.
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- casual clothes
- everyday clothes
- of or belonging to or occurring every day
- daily routine
- a daily paper
- gradually and progressively
- his health weakened day by day
- every day; without missing a day
- he stops by daily
- a newspaper that is published every day