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day by day

day by day adverb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: one day at a time.

Adverb

day by day (comparative more day by day, superlative most day by day)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: one day at a time.
    • He tore the page for Thursday from his day by day calendar.
    • Wimbledon's press office produces a day by day summary of the day's play.
  2. gradually
    • Day by day things got worse.

day by day meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

day by day in Tamil

gradually
நாளுக்குநாள் nāḷukkunāḷ

day by day in Telugu

day by day
నానాటికి nānāṭiki

day by day in Malayalam

slowly, gradually, progressively
ദിനംപ്രതി, നാൾക്കുനാൾ, ഓരോദിവസവും, മന്ദമന്ദം, ദിനേദിനേ, ദിവസംതോറും
every day, daily, day after day
ദിനംതോറും, എല്ലാദിവസവും, ദിവസം തോറും, ദിനമനു, ദിവസംതോറും, പ്രത്യഹം

day by day in Kannada

day by day
ದಿನೇ ದಿನೇ dinē dinē
More languagesFewer languages
day by day in Sanskrit
प्रतिदिनम् pratidinam, अहश्शस् ahaśśas
day by day in Pashto
ورځ په ورځ wrëź pë wrëź

Forms of day by day

comparativemore day by day
superlativemost day by day

Words that rhyme with day by day

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about day by day

What does day by day mean?
Day by day means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: one day at a time.
What is day by day in Tamil?
Day by day in Tamil is நாளுக்குநாள் (nāḷukkunāḷ). See Day by day meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is day by day?
Day by day is an adverb.

Words near day by day in the dictionary

  1. day blindness
  2. day book
  3. day books
  4. day boy
  5. day boys
  6. day by day
  7. day cab
  8. day cabs
  9. day camp
  10. day care
  11. day care center

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day by day (page history and authors); నానాటికి (Telugu) (page history and authors); day by day (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ದಿನೇ ದಿನೇ (Kannada) (page history and authors); अहश्शस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); ورځ په ورځ (Pashto) (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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