Daily Meaning
/ˈdeɪli/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjThat occurs every day, or at least every working day.
adjThat occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.
Sentence Examples
Most people write about their daily life.
Tell me about your daily life.
Many people still read a daily newspaper.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ commute to work takes about forty minutes each way.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Most people write about their ____ life.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Give us this day our daily bread."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew vi:11:
"Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands."
— 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan:
"Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt."
— 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
"Our only servant is a daily woman, who seems able to do everything that we require."
— 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ commute to work takes about forty minutes each way.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Most people write about their ____ life.