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reck·on [ rékən ] (past and past participle reck·oned, present participle reck·on·ing, 3rd person present singular reck·ons)

verb

Definition:

1. transitive verb regard somebody or something as something: to consider somebody or something to be something ( often passive )

She's reckoned the best in her field.

2. transitive and intransitive verb count: to count or calculate something

We reckoned its speed at approximately 350 mph.

3. transitive verb include somebody or something: to include or class a person or thing as being part of a particular group

I reckon him among my friends.

4. transitive and intransitive verb think or believe something: to suppose something to be true ( informal )

I reckon we're finished now.

[ Old English gerecenian< Germanic]

reck·on·a·ble adjective

Regional History


	The informal use of reckon meaning "think, believe" and introducing a clause (with the word that present or suppressed), as in the sentence I reckon you're right, is chiefly dialectal in U.S. English, commonly occurring in Midland and Southern U.S. speech.