daily
daily Lexical Profile
daily Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Done, produced, or occurring every day or every weekday.
"Brushing your teeth is an essential part of a healthy daily routine."
• adverb
Every day; on each day in succession.
"The bakery bakes fresh sourdough bread daily."
• noun
A newspaper published every day, or every day except Sunday.
"He picked up the local daily at the newsstand on his way to work."
In filmmaking, the raw, unedited footage shot during a single day, typically viewed by the director and crew at the end of the day (usually used in the plural).
"The director stayed late in the screening room to review the dailies from the afternoon shoot."
British A domestic cleaner who comes in daily to work at a house without living on the premises.
"Their daily arrives at nine every morning to tidy the house and do the laundry."
• Rhymes for daily
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English dæġlīc ('daily'), formed from dæġ ('day') and the suffix -līc ('-ly'), cognate with German täglich.