reckoned
REK-uhnd/ˈɹɛkənd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of reckon.
He reckoned the herd at nearly two hundred head.
The whole bill was reckoned by hand long before calculators existed.
Note
One spelling does both jobs: he reckoned the cost, and the cost was reckoned. The participle comes into its own in the passive of the "esteem" meaning, where someone is reckoned among the best or reckoned a fool. In the colloquial "suppose" meaning a clause follows (I reckoned he'd come), and reckoned without his host describes someone who failed to take something into account.
reckoned is a form of reckon
reckon, verb: To suppose or conclude that something is the case, especially after weighing the likely possibilities. Full entry
- Spelling
- reckon → reckoned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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