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Reckon

//ˈɹɛkən// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
An impression or opinion. informal
"Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'"
2
Alternative form of rackan (“chain”). alt-of, alternative, dialectal

Verb

1
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
"then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain"
2
expect, believe, or suppose wordnet
3
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"
4
make a mathematical calculation or computation wordnet
5
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
"[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."

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6
deem to be wordnet
7
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause colloquial
"I reckon he won't try that again."
8
judge to be probable wordnet
9
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
"There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will."
10
take account of wordnet
11
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. intransitive
12
have faith or confidence in wordnet
13
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.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.

Etymology 2

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