Reckon Definition

rĕkən

reckoned, reckons

verb

reckoned, reckons

To count; figure up; compute.

Webster's New World

To consider as; regard as being.

Reckon them friends.

Webster's New World

To depend or rely (on)

Reckoning on good weather.

Webster's New World

To think; suppose.

Webster's New World

To count up; figure.

Webster's New World

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idiom

reckon with

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Reckon

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon") and Ä¡erecenian (“to explain, recount, relate"); both from Proto-Germanic *rekanōnÄ… (“to count, explain"), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵéye- (“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, reach.

From Wiktionary
Middle English reknen from Old English gerecenian to recount, arrange reg- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition