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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To count or compute: synonym: calculate.
  • intransitive verb To consider as being; regard as: synonym: consider.
  • intransitive verb To think or conclude.
  • intransitive verb To expect or intend (to do something).
  • intransitive verb To make a calculation; figure.
  • intransitive verb Chiefly South & South Midland To think or believe.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To count, or count up; compute; calculate; tell over by items or one by one: often with up.
  • To take into account; include in an account or category; set to one's account; impute; charge or credit.
  • To take account of; inquire into; consider.
  • To hold in estimation as; regard; consider as being.
  • Synonyms To enumerate, cast, cast up.
  • 1 and Compute, Count, etc. (see calculate).
  • To make a computation; cast up an account; figure up.
  • To make an accounting; settle accounts; come to an adjustment or to terms: commonly followed by with.
  • To give an account of one's self; make an explanation.
  • To take account of the points or details of a subject; reason; discriminate.
  • To base a calculation or expectation; rely; count; depend: with on or upon.
  • To hold a supposition or impression; have a notion; think; suppose; guess: as, I reckon a storm is coming.
  • To expect; intend.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • intransitive verb To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
  • intransitive verb to answer for; to pay the account for.
  • intransitive verb to count or depend on; to include as a factor within one's considerations.
  • intransitive verb to deal with; to handle.
  • intransitive verb to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.
  • transitive verb To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  • transitive verb 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.
  • transitive verb To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  • verb 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.
  • verb To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
  • verb To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
  • verb intransitive To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • verb To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb judge to be probable
  • verb have faith or confidence in
  • verb take account of
  • verb expect, believe, or suppose
  • verb deem to be
  • verb make a mathematical calculation or computation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English reknen, from Old English gerecenian, to recount, arrange; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian ("to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon") and ġerecenian ("to explain, recount, relate"); both from Proto-Germanic *rekanōnan (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Scots rekkin ("to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute"), West Frisian rekkenje ("to account, tally, calculate, figure"), Dutch rekenen ("to count, calculate, reckon"), Low German rekenen ("to reckon"), German rechnen ("to count, reckon, calculate"), Swedish räkna ("to count, calculate, reckon"), Icelandic reikna ("to figure"). See also reck.

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synonyms (141)

Words with the same meaning

  1. account
  2. account as
  3. account for
  4. add
  5. add up
  6. algebraize
  7. anticipate
  8. appraise
  9. appreciate
  10. approximate
  11. assess
  12. assume
  13. attend to
  14. bank on
  15. be afraid
  16. bear in mind
  17. believe
  18. calculate
  19. call
  20. cast
  21. cipher
  22. class
  23. compute
  24. conceive
  25. conclude
  26. conjecture
  27. consider
  28. contemplate
  29. count
  30. count on
  31. daresay
  32. deal with
  33. deduce
  34. deem
  35. depend on
  36. divide
  37. divine
  38. dope out
  39. dream
  40. enumerate
  41. esteem
  42. estimate
  43. evaluate
  44. expect
  45. extract roots
  46. fancy
  47. feel
  48. figure
  49. figure in
  50. figure out
  51. figure up
  52. foot
  53. form an estimate
  54. gather
  55. gauge
  56. give an appreciation
  57. grant
  58. guess
  59. handle
  60. have a hunch
  61. have an idea
  62. have an impression
  63. have an inkling
  64. have the idea
  65. hold
  66. hold as
  67. imagine
  68. include
  69. infer
  70. judge
  71. lean on
  72. let
  73. let be
  74. list
  75. look after
  76. look upon
  77. look upon as
  78. maintain
  79. make an estimation
  80. mark
  81. measure
  82. multiply
  83. name
  84. number
  85. opine
  86. pay attention to
  87. place
  88. prefigure
  89. presume
  90. presuppose
  91. presurmise
  92. prize
  93. provisionally accept
  94. put
  95. rank
  96. rate
  97. reckon up
  98. reckon with
  99. regard
  100. rely on
  101. remember
  102. repute
  103. say
  104. score
  105. see to
  106. set down as
  107. settle
  108. settle accounts with
  109. subtract
  110. sum
  111. sum up
  112. suppose
  113. surmise
  114. suspect
  115. take
  116. take account of
  117. take care of
  118. take for
  119. take for granted
  120. take into account
  121. take into consideration
  122. take it
  123. take to be
  124. tally
  125. tally up
  126. think
  127. think about
  128. think of
  129. total
  130. total up
  131. trow
  132. trust in
  133. understand
  134. valuate
  135. value
  136. venture
  137. view
  138. view as
  139. ween
  140. work out
  141. work up

equivalents (1)

Other words for 'reckon'

  1. to reckon upon

hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. approximate
  2. bank
  3. estimate
  4. gauge
  5. guess
  6. judge
  7. rely
  8. swear
  9. trust

same context (4)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. computation
  2. latitude
  3. longitude
  4. retribution

forms (8)

Forms

  1. reckoned
  2. reckoning
  3. reckons
  4. reckon for
  5. reckon on
  6. reckon upon
  7. reckon with
  8. reckon without

cross-references (4)

Cross-references

  1. calculate
  2. guess
  3. to reckon for
  4. to reckon without one's host

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. beckon
  2. second

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  • vendingmachine commented on the word reckon

    I didn't realize that bilbies said words like "reckon".

    July 10, 2015