RECKON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reckon mean? 

• RECKON (verb)
  The verb RECKON has 6 senses:

1. expect, believe, or suppose

2. judge to be probable

3. deem to be

4. make a mathematical calculation or computation

5. have faith or confidence in

6. take account of

  Familiarity information: RECKON used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECKON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reckon    ... he / she / it reckons   
Past simple: reckoned   
Past participle: reckoned   
-ing form: reckoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expect, believe, or suppose

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

guess; imagine; opine; reckon; suppose; think

Context example:

I guess she is angry at me for standing her up

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reckon"):

suspect (hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They reckon that there was a traffic accident

Sense 2

Meaning:

Judge to be probable

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast; reckon

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reckon"):

allow; take into account (allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deem to be

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

consider; reckon; regard; see; view

Context example:

I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Verb group:

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reckon"):

abstract (consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically)

reify (consider an abstract concept to be real)

idealise; idealize (consider or render as ideal)

deem; hold; take for; view as (keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view)

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

disesteem; disrespect (have little or no respect for; hold in contempt)

make (consider as being)

capitalise; capitalize (consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses)

appreciate; prize; treasure; value (hold dear)

expect (consider reasonable or due)

favor; favour (consider as the favorite)

identify (consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else)

relativise; relativize (consider or treat as relative)

like (feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard)

call (consider or regard as being)

consider (regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem)

include (consider as part of something)

reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)

reconsider (consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing)

receive (regard favorably or with disapproval)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a mathematical calculation or computation

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

Verb group:

work out (be calculated)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reckon"):

quantise; quantize (apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor)

resolve; solve (find the solution)

capitalise; capitalize (compute the present value of a business or an income)

budget (make a budget)

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

survey (plot a map of (land))

integrate (calculate the integral of; calculate by integration)

differentiate (calculate a derivative; take the derivative)

extrapolate; interpolate (estimate the value of)

divide; fraction (perform a division)

deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

factor; factor in; factor out (resolve into factors)

average; average out (compute the average of)

recalculate (calculate anew)

miscalculate; misestimate (calculate incorrectly)

prorate (divide or assess proportionally)

process (perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information)

extract (calculate the root of a number)

multiply (combine by multiplication)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Also:

reckon (have faith or confidence in)

Derivation:

reckoner (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))

reckoning (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Have faith or confidence in

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

bank; bet; calculate; count; depend; look; reckon; rely; swear

Context example:

Depend on your family in times of crisis

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

trust (have confidence or faith in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Take account of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

count; reckon

Context example:

Count on the monsoon

Hypernyms (to "reckon" is one way to...):

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has the upper hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Must be a tame wolf, I reckon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At this point I reckoned that we had come not less than a hundred miles up the tributary from the main stream.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not reckon the Hayters as anybody.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I then asked the captain, “how far he reckoned we might be from land?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

According to our reckoning, he proceeded, Mas'r Davy's here, and mine, she is like, one day, to make her own poor solitary course to London.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The shark was not in the reckoning. It—

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I’ve always been reckoned a genelman-like sort of man,” said Berks, thickly, “but if so be as I’ve said or done what I ’adn’t ought to—”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The estate at Delaford was never reckoned more than two thousand a year, and his brother left everything sadly involved.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This was just what Tom had reckoned upon; and now he began to set up a great shout, making all the noise he could.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)