Reckon

/ˈɹɛkən/ · verb

Meaning

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate..

Definitions by Sense

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
4. (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
6. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
8. (informal) An impression or opinion.

Example Sentences

then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.

For all the king counted and pointed and reckoned, he could not find as much as a hair of them missing.

He was reckoned among the transgressors

For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises

[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.

I reckon he won't try that again.

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Word Forms

• reckons
• reckoning
• reckoned
• reckin
• recken

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