Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or occurring during the day.
- adj. Happening or done every day: the physician's daily rounds.
- adj. Computed or assessed for each day: a daily record.
- adj. Everyday: casual clothes only for daily use.
- adv. Every day: Exercise daily.
- adv. Once a day: Wind the clock daily.
- n. A newspaper published every day or every weekday.
- n. The first, unedited print of movie film usually viewed after a day's shooting; the rushes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every weekday/ working day
- adj. diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly
- adv. quotidianly, every day
- adv. diurnally, by daylight
- n. a newspaper that is published every day.
- n. a cleaner who comes in daily.
- n. a daily disposable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal
- n. A publication which appears regularly every day.
- adv. Every day; day by day.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Happening or being every day; pertaining to each successive day; diurnal: as, daily labor; a daily allowance; a daily newspaper.
- n. A newspaper or other periodical published each day, or each day except Sunday: in distinction from one published semi-weekly, weekly, or at longer intervals. See journal, semi-weekly, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, as nouns.
- Every day; day by day.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or belonging to or occurring every day
- adv. every day; without missing a day
- adj. appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- n. a newspaper that is published every day
- adv. gradually and progressively
Etymologies
Middle English dayly, from Old English dæglīc, from dæg, day; see day.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from dæġ + -līċ (equivalent to modern day + -ly). (Wiktionary)
danama commented on the word daily
“All of the sudden, I had a sluggish digestive system and on the daily was plagued with chronic abdominal discomfort.”
“I figured if it didn’t have gluten, it was healthy, so I ate my weight in grains, especially corn (psuedo grain), on the daily.”
– blog post
Is this a regionalism? I’ve not before heard the expression“on the daily” subbing for “daily.”
March 29, 2013