reckon

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   take account of

   You have to reckon with our opponents

2. 2
   verb

   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

3. 3
   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.

   He was reckoned among the transgressors

4. 4
   verb

   To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

   […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

5. 5
   verb

   To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

   I reckon he won't try that again.

6. 6
   verb

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   An impression or opinion.

   Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'

8. 8
   verb

   expect, believe, or suppose

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”…