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The Meaning of reckon

  • (v. t.) To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • (v. i.) 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.

Synonyms

think , opine , suppose , imagine , guess , calculate , estimate , count on , figure , forecast , see , consider , view , regard , calculate , cipher , cypher , compute , work out , figure , count , bet , depend , look , calculate , count

Rhymes

beckon , check-in , deccan , flection , lection , second , vection