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Daly

/ˈdeɪli/

Daly proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Daly (countable and uncountable, plural Dalys)

  1. (countable) A surname from Irish.
  2. A language family in Australia
  3. A river in Australia: see Daly River.
  4. A locality in Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia.
  5. A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.

Noun capitalized: DALY

IPA/ˈdæli/

DALY (plural DALYs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of disability-adjusted life year.

Forms of Daly

Proper noun
pluralDalys
alternative formDailey
alternative formDaley
Noun
pluralDALYs

Origin of Daly

(surname): Anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Dálaigh, from dálach (“frequenting meetings”). Compare dáil.

Words formed from Daly

Phrases with Daly

Words that rhyme with Daly

13 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Daly

What does Daly mean?
Daly means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Daly?
Daly can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Daly?
Daly is pronounced /ˈdeɪli/.

Words near Daly in the dictionary

  1. Daluz
  2. Daluzes
  3. dalvastatin
  4. Dalwhinnie
  5. Dalwood
  6. Daly
  7. Daly City
  8. Daly River
  9. Dalyell
  10. dalyelliid
  11. dalyelliids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Daly (page history and authors); DALY (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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