reckon

CEFRB2

/ˈɹɛkən/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To think or calculate something.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • I reckon we will arrive at our destination before sunset tonight.

  • The rescue flight had to reckon with strong winds and freezing temperatures.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

  3. 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

More examples

In context

  • You can always reckon on me.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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 re...