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daily

/ˈdeɪli/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.07 in modern English

Syllables
dai-ly
IPA
/ˈdeɪli/
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.

adj

Diurnal: by daylight.

Archaic

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

British usage

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

British usage; Slang

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

American usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

dayly (alternative, archaic) dailies (plural) dailies (present, singular) dailying (participle, present) dailied (participle, past) dailied (past) Dailys (plural)

Derived Forms

bidaily dailily dailiness interdaily intradaily multidaily nondaily Saturdaily semidaily subdaily Sundaily tridaily

Phrases

daily-able daily average revenue trades daily beater daily bread daily-breader daily devotional daily double daily drive

Frequently Paired Words

annual infradian monthly quartan tertian ultradian weekly semiweekly

Synonyms

circadianly diurnally journal quotidian per diem circadian daily diurnal hemeral nychthemeral daily help daily maid

Homonyms

daly daley

Antonyms

nightly at night ahemeral

Rhymes With

israeli bailey haley daly hayley daley hailey ukulele bayley aly baillie paley

Questions

How do you pronounce daily?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdeɪli/.
What does daily mean?
That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.
Where does daily come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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