noun
Meaning 1
An impression or opinion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, informal
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
reckon
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹɛkən/
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noun
Meaning 2
Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 3
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth
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verb
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth
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verb
Meaning 5
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth
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verb
Meaning 6
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, colloquial
Examples
- I reckon he won't try that again.
- I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
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verb
Meaning 7
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
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth
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verb
Meaning 8
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth
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verb
Meaning 10
expect, believe, or suppose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
- I thought to find her in a bad state
- he didn't think to find her in the kitchen
- I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: think, opine, suppose, imagine, guess
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expect, anticipate
Narrower terms: suspect
verb
Meaning 11
make a mathematical calculation or computation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, figure
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reason
Narrower terms: quantize, quantise, extract, process, prorate, miscalculate, misestimate, recalculate, average, average out, factor, factor in, factor out, add, add together, subtract, deduct, take off, multiply, divide, fraction, interpolate, extrapolate, differentiate, integrate, survey, estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge, budget, capitalize, capitalise, resolve, solve
verb
Meaning 12
deem to be
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She views this quite differently from me
- I consider her to be shallow
- I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: see, consider, view, regard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: think, believe, consider, conceive
Narrower terms: expect, receive, reconsider, include, consider, call, like, relativize, relativise, identify, favor, favour, abstract, reify, idealize, idealise, deem, hold, view as, take for, respect, esteem, value, prize, prise, disrespect, disesteem, make, capitalize, capitalise, treasure, appreciate
verb
Meaning 13
judge to be probable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calculate, estimate, count on, figure, forecast
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: evaluate, pass judgment, judge
Narrower terms: allow, take into account
verb
Meaning 14
take account of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- You have to reckon with our opponents
- Count on the monsoon
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: count
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge
verb
Meaning 15
have faith or confidence in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- you can count on me to help you any time
- Look to your friends for support
- You can bet on that!
- Depend on your family in times of crisis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: count, bet, depend, look, calculate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trust, swear, rely, bank
History
Etymology
From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: смятам (smjatam) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Bulgarian: изчислявам (izčisljavam) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Burmese: တွက် (twak) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Catalan: comptar — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Cebuano: suma — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Esperanto: kalkuli — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Finnish: laskea — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Finnish: luetella — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Finnish: räknätä — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- French: compter — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- French: calculer — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- German: berechnen — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- German: errechnen — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- German: rechnen — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- German: ausrechnen — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- German: zusammenrechnen — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Portuguese: contar — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Portuguese: calcular — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Romanian: calcula — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Romanian: socoti — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Russian: счита́ть (sčitátʹ) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Russian: подсчи́тывать (podsčítyvatʹ) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Serbo-Croatian: izračunati — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Spanish: contar — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Spanish: calcular — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Spanish: censar — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Vietnamese: tính toán — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Yiddish: חשבונען (kheshbenen) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Yiddish: רעכענען (rekhenen) — to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate
- Bulgarian: смятам (smjatam) — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Bulgarian: считам (sčitam) — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Finnish: lukea — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Finnish: laskea — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- French: compter — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- French: estimer — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- German: zurechnen — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- German: zu etwas rechnen — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- German: zu etwas zählen — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Portuguese: estimar — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Russian: счита́ть (sčitátʹ) — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Spanish: contar — to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation
- Bulgarian: считам за (sčitam za) — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Cebuano: suma — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Finnish: lukea — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- German: zuschreiben — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- German: zusprechen — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- German: beimessen — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- German: verleihen — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- German: anerkennen — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Mongolian: үзэх (üzex) — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Portuguese: julgar — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Portuguese: considerar — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Spanish: atribuir — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Spanish: adjudicar — to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value
- Bulgarian: разчитам на (razčitam na) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Catalan: creure — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Catalan: considerar — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Chinese: 研判 (yánpàn) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Dutch: veronderstellen — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Finnish: päättää — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Finnish: arvata — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Finnish: arvella — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Finnish: arvuutella — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- French: estimer — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- French: considérer — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- German: schätzen — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- German: vermuten — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- German: mutmaßen — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- German: rechnen mit — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- German: sich ausrechnen — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (munan) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Italian: reputare — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Italian: stimare — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Italian: valutare — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Mongolian: үзэх (üzex) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Portuguese: concluir — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Portuguese: considerar — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Russian: полага́ть (polagátʹ) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Russian: счита́ть (sčitátʹ) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Spanish: suponer — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Spanish: concluir — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Spanish: tantear — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Spanish: estimar — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Spanish: creer — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Vietnamese: tính toán — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Yiddish: מיינען (meynen) — colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose
- Bulgarian: броя (broja) — to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing
- Bulgarian: преброявам (prebrojavam) — to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing
- Finnish: laskea — to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing
- Spanish: calcular — to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing
- Bulgarian: оправям сметките (opravjam smetkite) — to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle
- German: abrechnen — to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle
- Spanish: saldar — to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle
- Spanish: finiquitar — to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle