reckon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb expect, believe, or suppose
    guess; suppose; imagine; opine; think.
    • 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
  2. verb judge to be probable
    calculate; figure; forecast; estimate; count on.
  3. verb deem to be
    see; regard; consider; view.
    • 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
  4. verb make a mathematical calculation or computation
    cypher; compute; calculate; work out; cipher; figure.
  5. verb have faith or confidence in
    count; depend; look; bet; calculate.
    • 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
  6. verb take account of
    count.
    • You have to reckon with our opponents
    • Count on the monsoon

WordNet

Reck"on transitive verb
Etymology
OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Reckoned ; present participle & verbal noun Reckoning
Definitions
  1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
    The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18.
    I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.
  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.
    He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37.
    For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton.
  3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
    Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9.
    Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.
  4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. Syn. -- To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.
Reck"on intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. Shak.
  2. 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.
    "Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

Webster 1913